Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Josh Hart

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Aug 1874, Evening
25 Aug 1874, Evening
26 Aug 1874, Matinee
26 Aug 1874, Evening
27 Aug 1874, Evening
28 Aug 1874, Evening
29 Aug 1874, Matinee
29 Aug 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Maffitt and Bartholomew's Pantomime Troupe;  Diamond and Ryan [song and dance];  Wayne and Lovely [song and dance];  Carroll Family;  Charley White;  D. L. Morris;  Cool [minstrel] Burgess;  George H. Coes;  Add Ryman;  Billy [banjo comedian] Carter;  G. L. Stoute;  Luke Schoolcraft;  Kate O'Connor;  Kitty [dancer] O'Neil
2)
Coal heaver's revenge
3)
Irish songs
aka Irish melodies; Popular, national, and Irish airs; Hibernian songs
Participants:  Kate O'Connor
4)
McFaddens, The
aka McFadden family, The; Collecting the rent; Sixth Ward McFaddens; MacFaddens, The
Participants:  Carroll Family
5)
Flick flock, [pantomime burlesque]
6)
Robert Macaire, [pantomime]
Participants:  Maffitt and Bartholomew's Pantomime Troupe
7)
Dutch justice, The
Participants:  D. L. Morris
8)
Banjo solos
Participants:  George H. Coes
9)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Luke Schoolcraft

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 August 1874, 7.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 25 August 1874, 7.

Beginning of the regular fall and winter season; no mention of music.

3)
Review: New-York Times, 29 August 1874, 5.

No mention of music. 

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

“…Cool Burgess in a budget of Ethiopian character-songs proved as diverting as of yore, and evinced his claim to high rank in his profession…”