New Bowery Theatre: Testimonial to Bill Post

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Bowery Theatre

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 January 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Dec 1864, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wallace’s Band;  New Bowery Theatre, orchestra;  Thomas L. Donnelly;  Marietta Ravel;  A. H. (Dolly) Davenport;  John J. Nunan;  C. W. Clarke [Barnum];  Nelse Seymour;  Tommy Shields;  James W. Lingard;  Thomas Henry [Ethiopian comedian] Ryan;  Fred Shaw

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 18 December 1864, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 December 1864, 7.

“[Bill Post was] for the last twenty-one years connected with the Old and New Bowery Theatres. Song and dance, Wallace’s Full Brass Band, with the New Bowery theatre Company.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 December 1864, 7.

More performers, but it’s extremely difficult to read. “William Post.”