Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Price: $.25 family circle; $.50 dress circle; $1 reserved seat, orchestra, balcony

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Aug 1874, 7:45 PM
25 Aug 1874, 7:45 PM
26 Aug 1874, 2:00 PM
26 Aug 1874, 7:45 PM
27 Aug 1874, 7:45 PM
28 Aug 1874, 7:45 PM
29 Aug 1874, 2:00 PM
29 Aug 1874, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Tierney and Cronin [song and dance];  A. J. Talbot;  J. [actor] Myers;  Andrew J. Leavitt;  Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety];  J. W. [minstrel] McAndrews;  Master Barney;  Sam [comedian] Rickey;  Joe [song and dance] Lang;  Eugene Blitz;  Sadie [dancer] O'Neil;  Petite Pauline, La ;  Gertie Granville
2)
Stump speech
aka Stump oration; Any other man
Participants:  A. J. Talbot
3)
Scenes in an hospital
4)
Comic songs
Participants:  Gertie Granville
5)
Song and dance
Participants:  Petite Pauline, La
6)
Jig
Participants:  Sadie [dancer] O'Neil
7)
Pastimes on the levee; or, The watermelon man
aka Watermelon man
Participants:  J. W. [minstrel] McAndrews
8)
Was she led or did she go astray?
aka Going astray
Text Author: Poole
9)
Elephant, The
aka Taming the elephant; Baby elephant; Pet elephant; Who owns dis elephant?
10)
Peep o'day; or, Savourneen dheelish, [drama]
Text Author: Falconer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 August 1874, 8.

Season’s grand opening. “A brass band on balcony one hour before each performance, and a series of overtures and popular selections.” 

2)
Review: New York Post, 25 August 1874, 2.

Brief; no mention of music. 

3)
Review: New York Herald, 25 August 1874, 7.

A condensed version of Peep o’ day; No mention of music.

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 05 September 1874, 182.

“…Miss Gertie Granville, an attractive lass, sang serio-comic songs, which won for her a double recall and other marks of approbation. La Pauline, a little miss with well-rounded figure amply displayed by a close-fitting male attire of colored silk, evinced considerable aptitude for the song-and-dance business…The attendance was large on the opening night, but fell off to fair business during the remainder of the week.”