Fox's Old Bowery Theatre: Harry Chapman Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fox's Old Bowery Theatre (until 1/67)

Event Type:
Play With Music, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 October 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 May 1864, Evening

Program Details

G. L. F. in “G.L.F. Gallop” must be G. L. Fox.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Mrs. Harry Chapman;  George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: First Witch);  Charles Kemble Fox;  Fanny Herring (role: First Singing Witch);  Rachel Denvil (role: Lady Macbeth);  John B. Studley (role: Macbeth);  George W. Thompson (role: Macduff);  Harry Chapman
3)
aka G. L. Fox gallop
Composer(s): Tyte
4)
Text Author: Amherst
Participants:  Fanny Herring (role: Ragged Pat );  Rachel Denvil (role: Jolly O Trot)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 May 1864.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 May 1864, 38.
“’Macbeth’ and Shakespeare held possession of the Old Bowery through the week, and though the several plays produced were put upon the stage in very fair style, and the stock company did their best to give due effect to the creations of the great author, yet the legitimate failed to make a deep impression; and the sensational and illegitimate will be resumed this week, Manager Fox being too wily a strategist to neglect the signs of the times, or to press upon the patrons of his house a surfeit of dishes that are not palatable.”