Wood’s Theatre

Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
George A. F. Wood

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 August 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
23 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
24 Jan 1866, 1:30 PM
24 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
25 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
26 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
27 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Hanlon Brothers;  Francis Chanfrau
2)
Stage struck chambermaid, The; or, The widow's victim
aka Stage struck Sally
Text Author: Selby
3)
Balloon wedding, The, [comedy]
Text Author: De Walden

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 22 January 1866.

     “This elegant new house is crowded nightly.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 January 1866, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 23 January 1866, 4.

     The Wednesday matinee ends in time for the afternoon trains.  “The uproarious farce of the ‘Widow’s Victim’ was played previous to the ‘Balloon Wedding,’ and enabled Mr. Chanfrau to give his inimitable imitations of actors.  To listen to them is as good as going to half a dozen theatres of an evening.” 

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 January 1866, 7.
5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 January 1866, 4.

     No mention of music. “Chanfrau is a remarkably good actor. . . . The company, with the single exception of Mr. G. C. Davneport, is deplorably and intolerably bad. . . . As to ‘The Balloon Wedding’ there is nothing to be said, because the piece amounts to nothing. . . . ‘The Balloon Wedding’ will, probably, soon be a thing of the past.  We certainly hope so. . . . [T]he Hanlons are the best gymnasts have ever appeared in the United States.  Their exploits are wonderful.  But the Circus, and not the dramatic stage, is the proper place for gymnasts.”