Event Information

Venue(s):
Fox's Old Bowery Theatre (until 1/67)

Proprietor / Lessee:
George Washington Lafayette Fox

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 October 2014

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, Evening

Program Details

Also included an untitled drama and an untitled farce.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Tony Denier;  George Washington Lafayette Fox;  Charles Kemble Fox;  Louisa Browne;  Esther [pantomimist] Martinetti
2)
House that Jack built, The; or, Harlequin and the good fairy
aka Harlequin and the Good Fairy; Paul and Virginia
Composer(s): Tyte
Participants:  Tony Denier (role: Harlequin);  George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: Simon Slendershanks, the clown);  Charles Kemble Fox (role: Pantaloon);  Louisa Browne;  Esther [pantomimist] Martinetti

Citations

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

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 January 1864.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 January 1864, 7.

4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 335.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 331.

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 January 1864, 9.

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 06 February 1864, 339.
Fox’s Old Bowery holds 4,000 people.  “Perhaps the heaviest audience ever assembled within the enclosures of the Old Bowery was that in attendance on Monday evening, Jan. 25th, the first night of the representation of G.L. Fox’s new pantomime—‘The House that Jack Built.’  It is computed that four thousand persons were present!  They were packed as close as Union prisoners are packed in ‘Libby Prison,’ at Richmond. . . . The new pantomime is one of the greatest successes ever achieved, having crowded the house every night since it was put on.”