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Event Information
Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre
Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack
Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack
Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]
Price: $.75; $1 reserved seats in dress circle; $1.50 orchestra chairs; .30 family circle
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
19 July 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
19 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM20 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
21 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
22 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
23 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
24 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
Program Details
Mr. Lester Wallack, stage manager. Overture 7:45 pm.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
2)
“The theater has been thoroughly renovated, cleansed and repaired”
3)
Huge ad with full cast, scenes, prices, etc. Lists the Treasurer and Prompter.
4)
“The overture will commence at 7:45. . . . The orchestra under the direction of MR. MOLLENHAUER.”
5)
“If any persons have hitherto doubted the justice of our criticism upon the management of Wallack’s theatre, they must have been convinced and converted last evening. It was the opening night of the season, there was a ‘new’ comedy to be played, the weather was delightfully cool and clear, and yet there were vacant seats at this theatre. These facts tell the whole story.”
6)
“We all remember what an opening night at Wallack’s used to be. The cosy [sic] theatre was crowded. The audience was fashionable and cultivated. The people were all of the same set, and formed almost a family party. The toilettes were brilliant. Manager Wallack, the veteran, made his little speech, and was applauded by a thousand friendly hands. . . .
On Monday night all this had changed. The reopening of the theatre, long announced in pompous and ungrammatical advertisements, seemed a burlesque, since the theatre hardly closed during the summer. . . . Manager Wallack stood up in his box, but he failed to elicit any recognition from the audience. The habitués were not there. The play dragged. The opening night was a failure.”
On Monday night all this had changed. The reopening of the theatre, long announced in pompous and ungrammatical advertisements, seemed a burlesque, since the theatre hardly closed during the summer. . . . Manager Wallack stood up in his box, but he failed to elicit any recognition from the audience. The habitués were not there. The play dragged. The opening night was a failure.”