American Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [444 Bdway--before 3/66]

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Conductor(s):
Fred Van Olker

Ballet Director / Choreographer:
Paul Brilliant

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Dec 1863, Evening
22 Dec 1863, Evening
23 Dec 1863, Evening
24 Dec 1863, Evening

Program Details

Mons. La Thorne, stage manager.

"Odalisques" includes “Il bacio."

“First time in America" of Paul Brilliant’s "The Odalisques."

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  Thomas L. Donnelly (role: Mickey McGrath);  J. H. [American Theatre] Graham (role: Don Manuel);  Miss Morand (role: Ninetta)
4)
aka Kiss; Kuss, Der
Composer(s): Arditi

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 December 1863.
“First time in America of the new Ballet, composed expressly for this establishment by Mons. Paul Brilliant, of THE ODALISQUES. . . . In the course of the ballet, the favorite Waltz, IL BACIO, by the principal Dancers and Corps de Ballet.  TONY PASTOR . . . in a variety of new and original songs on the doings of the day.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1863.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 December 1863.
Performers.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 26 December 1863, 291.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 26 December 1863, 296.