Melodeon

Event Information

Venue(s):
Melodeon

Proprietor / Lessee:
George E. Heydon

Manager / Director:
Albert Braham [tenor, etc.]

Conductor(s):
Herr Meyerbeer

Price: Free Admission

Event Type:
Opera, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 December 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Feb 1864, Evening
23 Feb 1864, Evening
24 Feb 1864, Evening
25 Feb 1864, Evening
26 Feb 1864, Evening
27 Feb 1864, Evening

Program Details

No matinee mentioned for Saturday.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Participants:  Ella Thompson [contralto] (role: Zillaha Zingari);  W Gordon (role: The Regent Orleans);  [Unidentified Melodeon] Brown (role: Prince Gongonus);  Lew (Miss) [Melodeon] Anderson (role: Duchess De Nevins);  Hattie [Melodeon] St. Clair (role: Blanche De Nevins);  Albert Braham [tenor, etc.] (role: Capt. Henri de Lagerdere);  Moses Solomon (role: Garickfurgus);  W. S. [Melodeon - comic vocalist] Coles (role: Aesop the hunchback);  Daddy [Melodeon] Sayers (role: Duke De Nevins);  Bony [Melodeon] Pastor (role: Novites the comic)
3)
Composer(s): Brougham
Participants:  Moses Solomon
4)
Composer(s): Brougham
5)
Composer(s): Dodworth
Text Author: Brougham

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 February 1864.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 February 1864.

“Madame Sidell to-night, the Mocking Bird. Re-engagement of Miss Kate Hovey, the Poet and Comic Songstress.”