Miss Lotta, the California Pet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Concert Saloon

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Jun 1864, Evening

Program Details

Harry Jordan, stage manager. Program also included a “small dramatic company.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Wife's first lesson ; Wife's lesson
Text Author: Kemble
3)
aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Lotta Crabtree
4)
aka Brilliant dances
Participants:  Lotta Crabtree
5)
Participants:  Lotta Crabtree (role: Jenny Lind)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 June 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 June 1864, 7.
Banjo solos, songs, dances.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 11 June 1864, 70.
“[The] comedietta of ‘A Day after the Wedding’ (called in the bills ‘A Day after Marriage’) was performed, followed by Lotta in banjo solos, songs and dances, concluding with the farce of ‘Jenny Lind.’ . . . [T]here were a goodly number present, composed in the main of claquers, who had received a free ticket for the purpose of applauding the lady to the skies in everything she did.  So apparent was this from the start, that the whole thing became a ridiculous farce, and tended more to damn the reputation of the lady than to do her good.”