Globe Theatre Grand Opening

Event Information

Venue(s):
Globe Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
same address Academy of Music (2) after 1866

Conductor(s):
Fred Youker

Price: $.50; $.75 reserved orchestra seat; $.25 family circle

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
10 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
11 Nov 1874, 2:30 PM
11 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
12 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
13 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
14 Nov 1874, 2:30 PM
14 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Weston Sisters [song and dance];  Walhalla Brothers;  Foley and Wade [song and dance];  Dick Sands [minstrel dancer];  Jennie Worrell;  Harry Richmond;  Jennie [vocalist] Hughes;  Harry Kernell;  Winetta Montague;  Adah [vocalist] Richmond;  Nellie Young;  Erwin [dancer] Thomas

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 November 1874, 13.

Inaugural of the fall and winter season.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 10 November 1874, 7.

No mention of music. 

3)
Review: New-York Times, 11 November 1874, 4.

“…But as one cannot recount without bewilderment the many things that go to make up an evening at this house, suffice it to say that he who seeks to be diverted were unreasonable in the extreme if he complained of the extent and variety of the evening’s fun.”