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:
10 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1874, Evening
22 Sep 1874, Evening
23 Sep 1874, Evening
23 Sep 1874, 2:30 PM
24 Sep 1874, Evening
25 Sep 1874, Evening
26 Sep 1874, Evening
26 Sep 1874, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart;  Johnny Wild;  James [minstrel] Bradley;  Billy [banjo comedian] Carter;  Polly Booth;  Alice [child singer] Bennett;  Emma [serio-comic vocalist] Day;  William Gaylord;  Baby Bindley;  Kitty [dancer] O'Neil
2)
Home again: Patrick's day parade
Text Author: Harrigan
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart
3)
Lightning; or, Scenes at the Long Branch races
4)
Comic songs
Participants:  Emma [serio-comic vocalist] Day
5)
Banjo solos
Participants:  Billy [banjo comedian] Carter
6)
Rival artists, The
7)
Going for the cup

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 September 1874, 11.

Cast and scene listing for Lightning.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 03 October 1874, 214.

“…Baby Bindley is a bright-eyed, intelligent-looking little girl of some five years of age. Her specialities were introduced in an entertainment during which father and daughter converse as though they were in the home-circle. Prof. Bindley gave a brief performance upon musical glasses, and his daughter, after a rapid change of attire, reappeared as an English swell, and sang character songs; after another change of costume, she performed with much skill a number of difficult airs upon the musical glasses, being accompanied by her father with the concertina, upon which instrument he subsequently gave imitations of a fife, while his daughter performed upon a snare-drum. Barring that their performances were a little too long, they proved highly entertaining…”