Eveleen

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
23 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
24 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
25 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
26 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
27 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

John Moore, the stage manager.

Olive Logan: Eveleen
Includes a “Drawing-room quadrille gallop”, arr. by John Moore – (perf. by “the characters and an efficient corps de ballet”)

“[N]ever before given in this city.” AN: NYP 08/22/64, p. 2.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Corps de ballet, unidentified;  Olive Logan
2)
Eveleen
Text Author: Logan

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 August 1864, 2.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 August 1864.

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 22 August 1864, 2.

“’Eveleen’—a play never before given in this city.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 August 1864.

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 22 August 1864.

“Miss Logan has every advantage of talent, education, person and position.”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 23 August 1864, 4.

“Miss Logan comes of a recognized dramatic family, and her intuitions give promise of a brilliant career. . . .

 

. . .Her voice is melodious, her presence charming, and her talent very distinct and discernible.”

7)
Review: New York Herald, 24 August 1864, 4.

No mention of music.  Logan is both the leading actress and the author of the play.  There was “a large and appreciative audience in spite of the very disagreeable weather.”  Most of the review is a summary of the plot, which is “of the sensational school.”  Logan has “a fine face, a good figure, an excellent stage presence, a sweet, clear voice, and a remarkable degree of self possession.”

8)
Review: New York Herald, 25 August 1864, 4.

A short article criticizing a review that appeared in the Express that was very unfavorable to Logan simply because “she is the wife of one of the gentlemen connected with the Herald.”  What has that to do with her acting or the play?  “[T]he critics of New York generally treat debutants very nicely and fairly.”