Fanchon

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Manager / Director:
William Wheatley

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 May 1865, 7:30 PM
02 May 1865, 7:30 PM
03 May 1865, 7:30 PM
04 May 1865, 7:30 PM
05 May 1865, 7:30 PM
06 May 1865, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Fanchon, the cricket
aka Fanchon, the little cricket
Text Author: Waldauer
Participants:  Maggie Mitchell (role: Fanchon)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 May 1865, 7.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 02 May 1865.

      “Miss Maggie Mitchell began an engagement here last night in Fanchon the Cricket, which was played as usual to a full house.  Last year, it may be remembered, Miss Mitchell played Fanchon through a whole season, to the exclusion of other pieces; and it seems probable that the unfailing popularity of this play will carry it through even another season.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 May 1865, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 May 1865, 7.

      Includes “Beautiful Music and Dancing.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 May 1865, 31.
6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 May 1865, 4.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 May 1865, 38.

      “That Merry Little Cricket, Miss Maggie Mitchell, has drawn good audiences to Niblo’s since our last.  Her play of ‘Fanchon,’ with its many telling features, including the Shadow Dance, is sufficient, generally, to run her engagement through without any other attraction.”