Visible Quill of the Melodeon
Event Information
Venue(s):
Melodeon
Manager / Director:
George E. Heydon
Price: Free
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
23 July 2014
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
05 Dec 1863, EveningProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Composer(s): Solomon
Participants: Maggie [Melodeon] Tremane (role: Miss Coquette, unapproachable charmer); Moses Solomon (role: Director, with it on the brain); W. S. [Melodeon - comic vocalist] Coles (role: What is it [Barnum's original]); Ella Thompson [contralto] (role: Mrs. Innocence, not a cheap boxer); George E. Heydon (role: Mogul, lord of the harem); Fred [tenor, comedian] Williams (role: Monarch of Liliputian brains)
Citations
1)
“The most extraordinary enterprise ever exhibited at any place where no charge is made for admission. This evening will be presented the new $500 prize comic opera, written expressedly for the Melodeon, not by R.W. Rushmore, nor set to music or arranged by M. Solomon or any other mon, entitled ‘The Visible Quill of the Melodeon.’ . . . Principal musical characters.— [then gives cast.] . . . . Introducing the entire strength of the company, and twenty ladies and gents in characteristic songs, glees and duets.”