Fox's Old Bowery Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fox's Old Bowery Theatre (until 1/67)

Proprietor / Lessee:
George Washington Lafayette Fox

Conductor(s):
Alexander Tyte

Event Type:
Play With Music, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Aug 1863, Evening

Program Details

A. Tyte, musical director

The Cabin boy includes Tyte: Unidentified overture (orchestra).
Jenny Lind includes songs.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Fox's Old Bowery, orchestra; Fanny Herring

2)

Cabin boy, The

Text Author: Unknown playwright

3)

Overture, unidentified

Composer(s): Tyte

4)

Jenny Lind at last; or, The Swedish nightingale

aka Jenny Lind; Jenny Lind at last; Swedish nightingale; Jenny Leatherlungs

Text Author: Reach

Participants: Fanny Herring (role: Lind)

5)

Songs, unidentified

aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists

Composer(s): Unknown composer

6)

Minute gun at sea, The

Text Author: Barnett [dramatist]

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 August 1863, 7.

Casts. “New and Beautiful Overture By the Orchestra.”

2)

Review: New York Clipper, 22 August 1863, 147.

Description of the renovation. “The Old Bowery Theatre, which of late years has been permitted to moulder, as it were, in its oppressive atmosphere, the damp and sweat of dilapidated walls, paper, and paint. . . . All this, however, we are glad to state, has now been changed. We visited the place on Friday night last, and as we entered the building, could not help remarking what a change had come over the place. . . .

Now the building looks as good as new. . . . Mr. Fox has indeed wrought a wonderful change in the appearance of this establishment. The carving and gilding looks beautiful in the gas light. All the drapery of the private boxes and damask coverings on the seats, are new and elegant. The re-opening of this establishment, under Mr. Fox’s management, has thus far been welcomed by large gatherings. Miss Fanny Herring seems to be the particular star with the ‘boys.’”