Wallack's Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Price: $.50 dress circle and parquet; .75 dress circle reserved; .25 family circle; $1 orchestra stalls; $7 private boxes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Jan 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Charles Dance: Old English gentleman (comedy)
Includes the songs:
“Fine old English gentleman, The” (Smith)
“Balfe: “Come into the garden, Maud” (Burke)

The review mistakenly says Old English gentleman played “last night,” that is, on Thursday, January 14, 1864. But the play that evening was Love chase. The most recent performance of Old English gentleman before the review was this one, on Tuesday, January 12.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Text Author: Dance
3)
aka Old English gentleman
Text Author: Dance
4)
aka Old English gentleman
Text Author: Dance
Participants:  Mark Smith
5)
aka Come into the garden Maude
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Tennyson
Participants:  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 January 1864, 7.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 January 1864, 7.

3)
Review: New York Post, 15 January 1864.
“In the ‘Gentleman,’ as given last night, occurs some of that exquisite acting for which this theatre is so noted; for instance, the scene between Mark Smith and Mrs. Softon, in which the old squire proposes in joke to marry his housekeeper, and on learning that she has taken it in earnest, determines to spare her feelings by carrying it out in reality.  In this play there is also some fine singing.  Mr. Smith gives the familiar ballad, ‘The Fine Old English Gentleman,’ with such taste as to elicit a nightly encore; and Miss Ione Burke sings Balfe’s serenade, ‘Come into the Garden, Maud,’ very sweetly, although the sentimentality of the song is by no means in keeping with the hoydenish part she plays in the comedy.”