Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Manager / Director:
John F. [1833-93] Poole

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Jul 1875, 7:45 PM
13 Jul 1875, 7:45 PM
14 Jul 1875, 2:00 PM
14 Jul 1875, 7:45 PM
15 Jul 1875, 7:45 PM
16 Jul 1875, 7:45 PM
17 Jul 1875, 2:00 PM
17 Jul 1875, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Siegrist Family;  Harper and Stansil [song and dance];  George W. Howard Griffin;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Master [comic singer] Martin;  Billy West;  Prof. [glass tumbler player] O'Reardon;  Johnny Hart;  William B. Cahill;  Kate [vocalist] Williams;  Jennie Yeamans;  E. D. Gooding;  James [song and dance] Vincent;  Emmeline Young;  Pat Rooney;  John [Ethiopian dancer, comic vocalist] Gilbert
2)
Evening calls
3)
Pompey's blunders
aka Pompey's blunders!; Pomp's blunders; Pompey's patients
4)
Cinderella, [burlesque]
aka Cinderella in black; Cinderella in black; or, The fairy and the little glass slipper
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 July 1875, 11.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 13 July 1875, 3.

…”While other metropolitan houses have succumbed to the baleful influence of the heat the Olympic has not failed in a single instance to draw the public—on account, principally, of the attractive and well chosen style of entertainment if presents.”

3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 24 July 1875, 134.

Treasurer Richard Morrissey benefit on Monday evening.