Varieties Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Varieties Theatre

Price: $.10; .25; .30; .50; .10 “Colored Gallery”

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Jan 1865, Evening
17 Jan 1865, Evening
18 Jan 1865, Evening
18 Jan 1865, 2:00 PM
19 Jan 1865, Evening
20 Jan 1865, Evening

Program Details

Corps de ballet of “sixteen young ladies.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Varieties, corps de ballet;  Maude Stanley;  W. B. Cavanaugh;  John J. Dougherty;  Walter Wentworth;  Jennie Engel;  Johnny Thompson;  Frank Kerns
2)
Jim Crow alive again
aka Jim Crow alive
Text Author: Cavanaugh
Participants:  Frank Kerns
3)
Irish tutor, The, [minstrel parody]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 January 1865.

Jim Crow alive again is “a new burlesque on ‘The Live Indian,’”

which had a long run at the Broadway Theater.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 January 1865.
More performers.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 January 1865.
Additional work.