Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Mrs. John Wood

Manager / Director:
Mrs. John Wood

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
22 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
23 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
24 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
25 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
26 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM

Program Details

"Easy shaving" includes “The Maiden and the Linnet” (ballad sung by Wood).

"Mischief making" includes a “medley song of all nations” (Wood).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
2)
My preserver
Text Author: Craven
3)
Easy shaving
Text Author: Williams [dramatist], Burnand
4)
Easy shaving, "Maiden and the linnet, The"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
5)
Mischief making
Text Author: Buckstone
6)
"Medley song of all nations"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1863.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 December 1863, 2.
 “Mrs. Wood produces a fresh musical farce and a new comedietta, besides again proving her skill in ‘Easy Shaving’.”
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 December 1863, 7.
“[Wood] will sing a new ballad, composed expressly for the piece [Easy Shaving], ‘The Maiden and the Linnet’ . . . and conclude with, for the first time this season, the musical farce of Mischief Making . . . with a medley song of all nations.”
4)
Review: New York Herald, 22 December 1863, 4.
Only reviews My preserver.  No mention of music.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 25 December 1863, 4.

“Mrs. John Wood added another bright little piece to her programme last night. It was called ‘Mischief Making,’ and, like everything else played at this theatre, belongs to a past period, when farce writing had not absolutely sunk into disrepute. [Plot synopsis.] We have rarely seen this exuberant and thoroughly jolly artist [Mrs. Wood] to greater advantage. Her buoyancy and volatility were absolutely intoxicating. People left the house with sore eyes and red faces, as though they had been having a night of it. A medley song, introduced by Mrs. John Wood, was excellently sung; so much so that the audience almost perpetrated the cruelty of encoring it.”

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 December 1863, 7.

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 26 December 1863, 291.

8)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 26 December 1863, 295.