Fox's Old Bowery Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fox's Old Bowery Theatre (until 1/67)

Event Type:
Play With Music, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
15 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
16 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The Mistletoe Bough includes “National victorious overture" (overture).
Mother Goose and the Golden Egg includes “unidentified dance” (dance).
Captain Kyd includes a song.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Young Lovel's Bride; Bride and the ghost, The
Text Author: Somerset
3)
aka Oeuf d'or, L'; Mother Goose; Mother Goose and the golden egg; Golden egg
Text Author: Dibdin
4)
aka Extravaganza dance
Participants:  Louisa Browne
6)
aka Witch of Hurlgate; Witch of Hell Gate; Captain Kidd
Text Author: Jones
Participants:  George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: Horsebean Hemlock)
7)
aka New song
Composer(s): Unknown composer
8)
aka Grand national overture; National victorious overture; Overture on national airs
Composer(s): Unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 September 1863.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 September 1863.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 16 September 1863, 6.

     The “ghost” plays in New York may be going out of favor.

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 19 September 1863, 79.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 19 September 1863, 183.

     “[N]ational victorious overture by the orchestra.”

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 September 1863, 187.

     “Fox has added another feature to his entertainments by reviving his comic pantomimes, which not only brings forth the comic powers of Manager Fox, but gives us the capital pantomimic performances of Tony Denier, who has been engaged by Fox for the season, expressly to add to the general interests of his pantomimes.  Miss Fanny Herring is still laboring under a severe indisposition.”