American Theatre

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:
6 August 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Mar 1865, 7:45 PM
28 Mar 1865, 7:45 PM
29 Mar 1865, 7:45 PM
30 Mar 1865, 7:45 PM
31 Mar 1865, 7:45 PM
01 Apr 1865, 2:30 PM
01 Apr 1865, 7:45 PM

Program Details

J. S. Maffit, stage manager.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Grand ballet divertissement, unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 March 1865.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 01 April 1865, 406.

     “[O]ne of the prominent institutions of this city, with its corps de ballet of beautiful young ladies, who appear nightly in a grand ballet divertissement. . . . A pantomime is given every night in which James S. Maffit, Bartholomew and Lizzie Schultze do the leading business.  Business is excellent, and Manager butler is as happy as ever.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 April 1865.

     Matinee “for the special accommodation of ladies and children. The Beautiful Spanish Danseuse, Senorita Jovetta.”  Miss Stanley, vocalist; J.P. Johnson, comic singer; Maffit and Bartholomew, pantomimists, Ballet Troupe.