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)
23 May 1864, Evening24 May 1864, Evening
25 May 1864, Evening
26 May 1864, Evening
27 May 1864, Evening
28 May 1864, Evening
28 May 1864, 2:30 PM
Program Details
Mons. La Thorne, stage manager.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: American Theatre, corps de ballet; Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety]; Lizzie [actor] Schultze; Lizzy Whelpley; J. C. Moreland; Emma [dancer] Ross; Tony Pastor; W. A. (Billy) Burke; Charley White; J. [American Theatre] Lewis; James S. Maffit; Professor Young [magician]; Millie Flora; James F. Wambold; Mary [dancer] Blake
2)
aka Broken heart;
Farmer's daughter
Participants: J. C. Moreland (role: George Acorn); James S. Maffit (role: Timothy Toodles); James F. Wambold (role: Charles Fenton); Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety] (role: Farmer Fenton); Lizzie [actor] Schultze (role: Mrs. Tabitha Toodles); Lizzy Whelpley (role: Mary Acorn); W. A. (Billy) Burke (role: Farmer Acorn); J. [American Theatre] Lewis (role: La[illeg.]ord)
Citations
3)
Butler is referred to as “Bob” in this notice. “[T]he boys all call him Bob for short.”
6)
Good audience on Thursday night, despite the bad weather. “Run your eye over the different theatres, etc., on Broadway—you have negro minstrelsy, comedy, burlesque, tragedy, witchcraft, and the ballet. At 444, all these are combined: Charley White, James Wambold, and others do up the nigger; Maffit and his ‘confreres’ the comedy; Prof. Young and lady perform feats of legerdemain, illusion, and the Ærial Suspension as illustrated by Prof. Anderson, Heller, and others; Lizzie Schultze, Millie Flora, Mary Blake, with about two dozen assistants to do the ballet, which is not excelled at our best theatres; Miss Emma Ross, a pleasing colleen, gives Irish jigs and hits; Tony Pastor, the evergreen, irrepressible, popular Tony in his comic songs comes in for a quadruple encore nearly every night, and we might go on ad infinitum.”