Olympic Theatre – Opening Night of the Fall and Winter Season

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Mrs. John Wood

Manager / Director:
Mrs. John Wood

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Sep 1865, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Opening night of the season.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood;  James W. Collier;  Eliza Newton
2)
Pocahontas; or, The gentle savage
aka Po-ca-hon-tas; or, Ye gentle savage; Belle sauvage, La
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood;  Eliza Newton
3)
Captain of the watch, The
Text Author: Planché
4)
Dream, The, [Olympic Theatre]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 09 September 1865, 4.

“The Olympic opens on Thursday next with Pocahontas.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 September 1865.
3)
Advertisement: New York Post, 09 September 1865.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 September 1865, 4.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 11 September 1865.

Gives complete cast.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 15 September 1865, 4.

Music not mentioned.  “There was a very large audience present, and apparently a very well satisfied audience it was. . . . On the whole Mrs. John Wood’s inauguration of her new season was in every respect propitious.”

7)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 September 1865, 4.

Music not mentioned.

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 16 September 1865, 182.

Lists the names of “the ladies to be presented for our suffrages at the Olympic during the season. . . . What a gal-axy of loveliness and heart-tormentors!  What a muchness of seductive influences is concentrated in that body of female beauty, deceit, and other qualities which form the female proper. And the leader of that gal-lant band is one of the loveliest of them all—and she is the gay and festive Mrs. John Wood.”

9)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 16 September 1865, 183.