New Fifth Avenue Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Fifth Avenue Theatre (1873-1939)

Proprietor / Lessee:
Augustin Daly

Manager / Director:
Augustin Daly

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Price: $1.50 orchestra & balcony chairs; $1 dress circle, general admission; $.75 family circle; $.50 family circle sofas

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Aug 1874, Evening
26 Aug 1874, Evening
27 Aug 1874, Evening
28 Aug 1874, Evening
29 Aug 1874, Evening
29 Aug 1874, 1:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy
aka What should she do?
Text Author: Daly
2)
Talisman, The, selections
Composer(s): Balfe
3)
Giroflé-Girofla, selections
aka Girofle Girofla
Composer(s): Lecocq

Citations

1)
Article: New York Post, 01 August 1874, 2.
2)
Article: New-York Times, 02 August 1874, 5.

The coming season at the Fifth Avenue Theatre

3)
Article: New York Clipper, 08 August 1874, 150.

Forthcoming season. 

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 August 1874, 5.

Daly's new play. 

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 August 1874, 4.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 August 1874, 7.

Opening night of the regular season; cast listing. 

7)
Review: New York Post, 25 August 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

8)
Review: New-York Times, 26 August 1874, 4.

No mention of music. 

9)
Review: New York Herald, 26 August 1874, 7.

No mention of music. 

10)
Review: New-York Times, 29 August 1874, 5.

Brief; improvement in the play through judicious pruning.

11)
Article: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 August 1874, 4.
12)
Review: New-York Times, 30 August 1874, 4.

No mention of music. 

13)
Review: New York Clipper, 05 September 1874, 182.

“…The orchestra, under the direction of Harvey Dodworth, performed his arrangements of the best airs of ‘Il Talismano’ and ‘Girofle et Girofla,’ then heard in public for the first time in America. In connection with this department, Mr. Daly announces that he has perfected arrangements by which advance sheets of every new opera and all new dance-music will be sent to him from Europe, and at once given to the audiences of his theatre…”  Cast listing.