Theatre Comique

Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Josh Hart [actor, minstrel]

Conductor(s):
David Braham

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Sep 1874, Evening
08 Sep 1874, Evening
09 Sep 1874, Matinee
09 Sep 1874, Evening
10 Sep 1874, Evening
11 Sep 1874, Evening
12 Sep 1874, Matinee
12 Sep 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Diamond and Ryan [song and dance];  Wayne and Lovely [song and dance];  Charley White;  James Gaynor;  Frank Kerns;  George France;  Emma [serio-comic vocalist] Day;  William Gaylord
2)
Triple clog dance
3)
Passion’s perils; or, The adventures of an interviewer
Text Author: Unknown playwright
4)
Squire for a day
5)
Night in a strange hotel, A
6)
Comic songs
Participants:  James Gaynor;  Emma [serio-comic vocalist] Day

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 September 1874, 4.

Cast listing for Passion’s perils.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 08 September 1874, 7.

No mention of music; an abridged version of the play.  

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 September 1874, 198.

“Emma Day, who made her first appearance in America, proved to be a good serio-comic vocalist. She has a good and well-trained voice, a handsome face, and a rather stout figure. She has much vivacity, was elegantly costumed, and her singing of three fresh songs was heartily applauded…James Gaynor created much merriment by singing comical Ethiopian ditties and playing an accompaniment upon the banjo. Wayne and Lovely in acrobatic songs-and-dances, and later in the evening in a double essence, filled out the bill. An excellent business was done.”