Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
08 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
09 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
10 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
11 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
12 Sep 1874, 1:30 PM
12 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  John Lawrence Toole
2)
Our clerks; or, No. 3, Fig Tree Court, Temple
Text Author: Taylor [dramatist]
3)
Off the line
Text Author: Unknown playwright
4)
Ici on parle français
aka Ici on parle francais
Text Author: Williams

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 06 September 1874, 5.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 September 1874, 4.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 08 September 1874, 5.

No mention of music. 

4)
Review: New York Post, 08 September 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

5)
Review: New York Herald, 08 September 1874, 7.

No mention of music. 

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 September 1874, 198.

“Last night he [Toole] sang some songs in the first piece, but although an encore rewarded his efforts, we hardly think that these songs are well understood or appreciated by the majority of our audience.”