Wood’s Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Theatre [beginning Jan 15, 1866]

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Feb 1866, 7:45 PM
13 Feb 1866, 7:45 PM
14 Feb 1866, 1:30 PM

Program Details

Rip Van Winkle includes unidentified German song.
East Lynne; or, the Great Western includes “songs and dances."

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Rip Van Winkle, a legend of Katskill Mountains
Text Author: Kerr
Participants:  Frank Drew (role: Rip Van Winkle)
3)
aka Deutsches Lied
Participants:  Frank Drew
4)
Text Author: Craig
Participants:  Frank Drew (role: Lady Isabel and Mme Vine)
5)
aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Frank Drew
6)
aka Brilliant dances
Participants:  Frank Drew

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 February 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 February 1866, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 February 1866.

     “‘East Lynne’ with songs and dances innumerable.”

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 12 February 1866, 3.

     “Drew is generally very droll and amusing.”

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 February 1866, 366.

     “As old Rip, Mr. Drew was most excellent, his make up and acting being not only natural but very good. He was badly supported and the piece ‘hung fire’ on several occasions the first night. The burlesque was a miserable failure, both as regards its merits as a burlesque and the performance. It was written by Mr. Craig, of Philadelphia, a young man who has the reputation of being very clever at ‘all those sort of things you know,’ but if all his burlesques are no better than ‘East Lynne,’ we do not wish to witness another one. In Philadelphia it may have passed muster, for many of the puns are so localized that out of that city they are too far fetched to be appreciated. It is replete with several double entendres, several of which were so broad that a hiss was sounded by several persons in the audience.  Mr. Drew did his part full justice, as he is one of the best burlesque actors on the stage, and has that happy faculty of so disguising himself as a female that he would pass through a crowd for one of the gentler sex without much trouble. The house was a shy one on his opening night owing to the rain falling in torrents all the evening; he, however, was well received by the audience and made a favorable impression.”