Varieties Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Varieties Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
George [Varieties] Lea

Manager / Director:
W. J. [manager Varieties] Lentrel

Price: $.10; .20; .25; .40

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Jan 1865, Matinee
02 Jan 1865, Evening
03 Jan 1865, Evening
04 Jan 1865, Matinee
04 Jan 1865, Evening
05 Jan 1865, Evening
06 Jan 1865, Evening

Program Details

Corps de ballet of 25 women. W. B. Cavanagh, stage manager.

Performers include Kingcade Family (acrobats).

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 December 1864, 7.
“MONDAY, JANUARY 2, PERFORMANCE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.  First appearance of W. A. Wray.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 January 1865, 7.
“COMEDY, SONG AND ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY.  The Varieties has the best vocalists, the best Ethiopian comedians, the best dancers. . . . ATTRACTIVE OLIO OF FOUR HOURS’ DURATION.  The new comic pantomime of Three Hundred Thousand More.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 January 1865.
Lists managers.  “[M]agnificent ballet troupe consisting of twenty-five beautiful young ladies.”
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 January 1865, 7.
Prices.
5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 January 1865, 311.