Valiant Valentine

Event Information

Venue(s):
Lucy Rushton's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lucy Rushton

Manager / Director:
Lucy Rushton

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
28 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
29 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
30 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
31 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Machinery by Mr. Morgan; Appointments by Mr. J. Lundy and Assistants; Costumes by Mr. H. Seymour; Scenery by Geo. Evans and Assistants; Stage manager: J. Schonberg.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lucy Rushton’s Theatre, corps de ballet;  Lina Windel;  Lucia Deane [contralto];  Lucy Rushton;  C. W. Clarke [Barnum]
2)
Valiant Valentine, [theatrical burlesque]
Text Author: Schönberg [dramatist]
Participants:  Lucy Rushton’s Theatre, corps de ballet;  Lucy Rushton (role: Valiant Valentine);  C. W. Clarke [Barnum];  Lina Windel;  Lucia Deane [contralto]
3)
Valentine brigade
Participants:  Lucy Rushton’s Theatre, corps de ballet
4)
"Wearing of the dress"
Participants:  Lucy Rushton

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 March 1866.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 27 March 1866, 4.

Full cast given.  “A grand ballet by Mlle Windell and the corps de ballet.”

3)
Review: New-York Times, 28 March 1866, 4.

A positive review, but music is not mentioned.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 March 1866.
5)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 March 1866, 8.

The performance was sold out and very successful.

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 April 1866, 414.

“As a burlesque intended to provoke fun, ‘Valiant Valentine’ is a valiant [illeg.]; it fails to evoke laughter by a legitimate burlesque of human action or wit or dialogue.  There are quite a number of Nigger melodies introduced, and parodies of popular songs, one of which, on the ‘Wearing of the Dress,’ by Miss Rushton, was well sung, receiving the compliment of an encore, another hit was a breakdown of a parody on one of the latest Ethiopian eccentricities.”