Opening Night of the Newly-Renovated Wallack’s Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1865, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wallack's Theatre Orchestra
2)
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Text Author: Taylor [dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 September 1865.

Gives complete company.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 14 September 1865, 4.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 September 1865.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 18 September 1865, 4.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 18 September 1865.

Gives complete company.

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 19 September 1865, 5.

“The orchestra [for the season], as heretofore, will be under the direction of Mr. Edward Mollenhauer.”

7)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 September 1865, 2.
8)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 September 1865, 4.
9)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 September 1865, 2.

“[I]t will be a real relief to have another theatre accessible to a public which seems unusually hungry—absolutely ravenous—for amusement.”

10)
Review: New York Herald, 22 September 1865, 4.

No mention of music.  “The house was very full, the audience fashionable to the extreme degree.”

11)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 September 1865, 5.

Gives an overview of the plot and proclaims the opening performance “brilliant” but doesn’t mention music.

12)
Review: New-York Times, 25 September 1865, 4.

Music not mentioned.

13)
Review: New York Clipper, 30 September 1865, 198.

Music not mentioned.