Peasant Peeress

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Theatre [485 Broadway; 1864-69]

Manager / Director:
Samuel Colville

Conductor(s):
John P. Cooke [cond.-comp.-vocal]

Price: $1 orchestra; .50 dress circle and parquet; .25, family circle

Event Type:
Play With Music, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
13 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
14 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
15 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The Peasant peeress “with songs”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Participants:  Broadway Theatre, orchestra;  Rose Watkins (role: Lucy Loveknot, afterward Pioneer Princess)
2)
aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 June 1865, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 June 1865, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 12 June 1865, 5.

     “The orchestra has been placed under the experienced direction of Mr. John P. Cook and will no longer be a reproach to the city.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 June 1865, 7.

     Mrs. H. Watkins is a “comedienne and vocalist.”

5)
Review: New York Herald, 14 June 1865.

     “[M]ight be improved by the omission points bordering on the indecent. . . . Mrs. Watkins, who is a capable actress and vocalist, is better known here as Mrs. Charles Howard, her former name.”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 15 June 1865, 7.

     “Mr. Cooke conducted a small orchestra with marked ability.”

7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 17 June 1865, 79.