Butler's Combination Troupe

Event Information

Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [444 Bdway--before 3/66]

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 November 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Aug 1864, 7:30 PM
30 Aug 1864, 7:30 PM
31 Aug 1864, 7:30 PM
01 Sep 1864, 7:30 PM
02 Sep 1864, 7:30 PM
03 Sep 1864, 2:30 PM
03 Sep 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Butler's Combination Troupe; American Theatre, corps de ballet; Tony Pastor; Charley White; James S. Maffit; James F. Wambold; Tommy Gettings; John T. Boyce [minstrel]; Johnny [American Theatre] Pierce; George [vocal/banjo] Warren; William H. [pantomimist] Bartholomew; W. A. (Billy) Burke; Unidentified [dancer, American Theatre] Schultze

2)

aka Mistakes of a night

Participants: James S. Maffit; William H. [pantomimist] Bartholomew; W. A. (Billy) Burke; Unidentified [dancer, American Theatre] Schultze

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 August 1864.

“Tony Pastor, the greatest comic vocalist in the world, in a variety of his original songs. . . . The Magnificent Ballet Troupe . . . will appear in two brilliant ballet divertissements.”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 August 1864.