Led astray

Event Information

Venue(s):
Union Square Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Sheridan Shook

Manager / Director:
A. M. Palmer

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
23 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
24 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
25 Dec 1873, 1:30 PM
25 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
26 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
27 Dec 1873, 1:30 PM
27 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Special Thursday (12/25/73) matinee this week for Christmas.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Led astray, [comedy]
Text Author: Boucicault
2)
Led astray, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Tissington

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1873, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 December 1873, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 December 1873, 2.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 25 December 1873, 4.

Brief but very positive. No mention of music.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 December 1873, 7.

“THE UNION SQUARE THEATRE TO THE PUBLIC.

The New-York Herald, after grossly maligning this Theatre and its company during the present performances of ‘Led Astray’ in its dramatic columns, has refused to insert our advertisements because they were not of equal length with those given by us to other newspapers. The undersigned feel bound, in the name of decency and fair dealing, to resist this attempt to coerce them into paying a large weekly tribute to a newspaper which persistently and maliciously abuses their establishment; and they respectfully notify the public that hereafter the UNION SQUARE THEATRE advertisements will not appear in the New York Herald. SHERIDAN SHOOK, A. M. PALMER.”

6)
Article: New-York Times, 27 December 1873, 8.

Article on the quarrel between the Union Square Theatre and the New York Herald.

7)
Article: New York Clipper, 10 January 1874, 326.

Article on the quarrel between the Union Square Theatre and the New York Herald.