Butler’s Great Combination Troupe

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:
28 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jan 1864, Evening
26 Jan 1864, Evening
27 Jan 1864, Evening
28 Jan 1864, Evening
29 Jan 1864, Evening
30 Jan 1864, Matinee
30 Jan 1864, Evening

Program Details

Mons. La Thorne, stage manager

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Butler's Combination Troupe;  Charley White;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  James F. Wambold;  Adelaide Nixon;  Addison Weaver;  Lizzie [actor] Schultze

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1864, 3.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 January 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 January 1864.

4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 336.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 331.
“Determined not to be behind other places of entertainment, Manager Butler, of ‘444,’ has spared no expense to place the ‘American’ on a par with any music hall in the country. . . . [S]ongs, sentimental and comic, dances and glees, which may be termed the staple attraction of this establishment.”