Butler’s Combination Troupe

Event Information

Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [444 Bdway--before 3/66]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Conductor(s):
Fred Van Olker

Ballet Director / Choreographer:
Paul Brilliant

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Aug 1863, 7:45 PM
01 Sep 1863, 7:45 PM
02 Sep 1863, 7:45 PM
03 Sep 1863, 7:45 PM
04 Sep 1863, 7:45 PM
05 Sep 1863, 2:30 PM
05 Sep 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

The program also included a performer whose complete name was indecipherable: Little To[illeg.]. No one with a similar name appeared at American Theatre before or after this event.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Butler's Combination Troupe;  Brilliant’s Ballet Troupe;  Millie Flora;  James F. Wambold;  Thomas Grattan Riggs;  Dick Ralph;  Johnny Wild;  Tony Pastor;  Lizzie [actor] Schultze;  Charley White;  Frances LeRoy;  Marie Bertha [dancer, actor];  William H. [pantomimist] Bartholomew;  James S. Maffit;  Clara Harrington;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  Charles E. Collins

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 August 1863, 7.
Names.  “Grand Festival Week.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 August 1863, 7.
More names.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 September 1863, 7.

“First appearance of Miss Clara Harrington, the exquisite songstress.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 September 1863, 7.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 05 September 1863, 168.
“MAMMOTH ETHIOPIAN TROUPE.”
6)
Review: New York Clipper, 12 September 1863, 171.

“[C]ontinues to attract very full houses every night.  On Saturday afternoon last we took a ‘look in’ to the Matinee, and found the house very crowded.  There was quite a large sprinkling of ladies present, who seemed to enjoy the eccentricities of Charley White, Bob Hart, Johnny Wild, and Jas. Wambold.   Tony Pastor is a great favorite with the ladies, for we observed quite a number applauding and bringing him out for a fourth time.”