Butler's Combination Troupe

Event Information

Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [444 Bdway--before 3/66]

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Conductor(s):
David Braham

Ballet Director / Choreographer:
Antonio Grossi

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 November 2016

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, 2:30 PM
18 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Gamblers of Mississippi; Scenes on the Mississippi
6)
aka Gamblers of Mississippi; Scenes on the Mississippi
10)
aka Deaf as a horn
Text Author: Unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 June 1864.
Cast list.  “The Thiepian [sic] Sketches, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Portraying Darkey Life on board a Mississippi steamer—The Start—Loading Up—Landing at a Wood Pile—The Challenge—The Race—The Blow Up of the Steamer, &c. . . . Banjo solos, Songs, Dances, $c.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 June 1864.
Cast of Spectre Bridegroom.  Matinee time.  Some works.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 78.
Johnny Pierce, comedian of Rumsey’s Minstrels, will pierce Gen. Butler’s lines, at 444 Broadway, this week.  Butler and his corps will give him a warm reception.”
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 78.
“This is the last week but two of the present season, as the company go to Boston the first week of July.”
5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 80.

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 June 1864.
Matinee 2:30 p.m.  Evening at 8 p.m.