Aladdin

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Mrs. John Wood

Manager / Director:
Mrs. John Wood

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
14 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
15 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
18 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Thomas Baker, composer and arranger

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp, [drama]
Text Author: Farley
Participants:  Annetta Galletti;  J.G. Tophoff;  Mrs. John Wood (role: Aladdin)
2)
Aladdin, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Baker
3)
Irving polka
Composer(s): Baker

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 June 1864, 5.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 June 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 June 1864.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 June 1864, 4.

5)
Review: New York Post, 15 June 1864, 2.
“Aladdin at the Olympic attracts nightly crowds of delighted children and equally delighted parents.  The machinery is in admirable working order, and the various changes and transformations now take place with invariable precision.  The mounting and soaring away of the palace with its inmates is one of the most ingenious bits of stage effect ever seen in our city.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 June 1864.
“The celebrated danseuse Mlle. Annetti Galletti has been expressly engaged for this piece and will appear in two of her dances with Mons. Tophoff.”
7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 80.

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 78.
Two notices.  “Tophoff and Galletti have been secured by Mrs. Wood to appear in ‘Aladdin,’ and commence there this evening.”
9)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 June 1864.
“Thomas Baker’s new polka - “The Irving polka,” played nightly at the Olympic Theatre, published for piano.”