Pearl of Savoy

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Manager / Director:
William Wheatley

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
06 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
07 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
08 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
09 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
10 Jun 1865, 1:00 PM
10 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Pearl of Savoy, The; or, The mother's prayer
Text Author: Rossi
Participants:  Niblo's Garden, chorus;  Maggie Mitchell (role: Marie)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 04 June 1865, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 June 1865, 7.

     “Full Chorus, Original Music.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 June 1865, 7.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 07 June 1865, 4.

     “The ‘Pearl of Savoy’—produced here on Monday evening—is a version of the drama whence the opera of ‘Linda di Chamounix’ was performed. . . . Miss Maggie Mitchell plays the damsel in question, and plays it badly. . . . A worse performance of a principal part we have never seen. . . . Miss Mitchell’s feet are lively.  They danced on the American flag, when she tore it down with her own hands, and they dance with animal vitality on everything else.”

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 June 1865, 70.
6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 10 June 1865, 71.
7)
Article: New-York Times, 13 June 1865, 5.

     Letter to the editor from Anna Mitchell, mother of Maggie Mitchell, disputing the review in the Times on 06/07/65, which said that Maggie tore down and danced upon an American Flag.  Anna Mitchell found the tone of the article “coarse, harsh and unjust.”

8)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 June 1865, 78.

     Review of Mitchell’s performance. No mention of music.