Event Information
Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [444 Bdway--before 3/66]
Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler
Ballet Director / Choreographer:
Paul Brilliant
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
1 November 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
25 Apr 1864, Evening26 Apr 1864, Evening
27 Apr 1864, Evening
28 Apr 1864, Evening
29 Apr 1864, Evening
30 Apr 1864, Evening
30 Apr 1864, 2:30 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: American Theatre, corps de ballet; Ida [dancer] Ross; J. [American Theatre] Lewis; Frank Nixon; W. A. (Billy) Burke; Miss Unidentified [American Theatre] Lorraine; Lottie La Pointe; Annetta La Pointe; Jenny [American Theatre] Lorraine; Emma [dancer] Ross; Lizzie [actor] Schultze; Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety]; Dick Ralph; Adelaide Nixon; Mary [dancer] Blake; James F. Wambold; Millie Flora; J. [actor] Myers; Julia Melville; James S. Maffit; Charley White; Tony Pastor; George N. Christy
2)
Participants: Dick Ralph (role: Johnny); George N. Christy (role: Peago, the monkey); David S. Wambold (role: Lysander); Charley White (role: Flora, Johnson's Wife); Julia Melville (role: Jane, her daughter); J. [actor] Myers (role: Mr. Black); W. A. (Billy) Burke (role: Jack Johnson)
3)
aka Don Juan; or, The spectre on horseback
Participants: Dick Ralph (role: Old Woman); James S. Maffit (role: Scaramouche, his valet); Julia Melville (role: Don Ferdinand); J. [actor] Myers (role: Jaques); Millie Flora (role: Lobsteretta); James F. Wambold (role: Harry Helm); Mary [dancer] Blake (role: Shrimperina); Adelaide Nixon (role: Donna Anna); Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety] (role: Ben Bowline); Lizzie [actor] Schultze (role: Don Juan, the libertine); Jenny [American Theatre] Lorraine (role: Attendant); W. A. (Billy) Burke (role: Don Guzman, the spectre); J. [American Theatre] Lewis (role: Pedro)
Citations
3)
“George Christy became so Mortimerised, at 444 Broadway, one evening last week, that the proprietor applied the Wood remedy, and George don’t play at 444 any more.”
COMMENT: An actor named Mr. Mortimer was recently fired from the Olympic by Mrs. John Wood for being drunk during a performance.
COMMENT: An actor named Mr. Mortimer was recently fired from the Olympic by Mrs. John Wood for being drunk during a performance.