Theatre Comique

Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Josh Hart

Manager / Director:
Thomas Allston Brown

Conductor(s):
David Braham

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Aug 1875, Evening
24 Aug 1875, Evening
25 Aug 1875, Matinee
25 Aug 1875, Evening
26 Aug 1875, Evening
27 Aug 1875, Evening
28 Aug 1875, Matinee
28 Aug 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Boisset Family;  Delehanty and Cummings;  Scanlon and Cronin;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  Johnny Wild;  Larry Tooley;  James [minstrel] Bradley;  J. A. [actor?] Graver;  G. L. Stoute;  Alice [child singer] Bennett;  James W. McKee;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  Nelly St. John
2)
Lather and shave 'em
3)
Since Terry joined the gang
Participants:  Scanlon and Cronin
4)
Wanted, musicians for the centennial
5)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Larry Tooley
6)
Romance and reality, [musical sketch]
Participants:  Delehanty and Cummings
7)
Eh, what is it?
aka Mystery, The; or, What is it?
8)
Comic songs
Participants:  Nelly St. John
9)
Around New York in thirty minutes
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 August 1875, 166.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 August 1875, 8.

Fall and winter season begins Monday evening. Cast listing and scene synopsis for Around New York in thirty minutes. 

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 August 1875, 5.

No mention of music. 

4)
Review: New York Herald, 24 August 1875, 7.

“This house was last night thrown open for the fall season. It has evidently lost none of its old hold on the popular heart, for every seat was filled and the house crowded from floor to ceiling. The programme offered to the audience was long and varied and included well nigh everything which could delight the hearts of a variety audience. There was fun and frolic, and plenty of it…Larry Tooley made a very fair stage Dutchman and sung and danced in a way that set the gods into a fever of delight. Delehanty and Cummings occupied the stage for a considerable time, but their singing was not up its usual mark, which was, perhaps, due to the state of the weather…”

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 28 August 1875, 174.

Names of company members.  

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 04 September 1875, 182.

“The Theatre Comique was opened for the season on Aug. 23, in the presence of an audience which crowded the auditorium in every part. This state of affairs, however, did not long continue, as the attendance fell off on subsequent evenings, and only a middling business was done during the rest of the week. The programme included [see above].”