Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 March 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jun 1866, 7:45 PM
26 Jun 1866, 7:45 PM
27 Jun 1866, 7:45 PM
28 Jun 1866, 7:45 PM
29 Jun 1866, 7:45 PM
30 Jun 1866, 7:45 PM

Program Details

[More] farewell performances of Mrs. John Wood (they started in late May)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood;  George Fawcett Rowe
2)
Who killed Cock Robin?
Text Author: Mathews
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood (role: Satanella Tinkle)
3)
Cool as a cucumber
aka As cool as a cucumber; Cool as ice
Text Author: Jerrold
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
4)
Loan of a lover
Text Author: Planché
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
5)
Jenny Lind; or, Music mad, [farce]
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 June 1866, 7.
2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 29 June 1866.

“How much jollity Mrs. Wood has occasioned, in the course of her career upon the American stage, it would be hard to calculate. But if there is extant an individual whom she has never caused to laugh, the anomaly can only have arisen from that individual’s never having seen her; and we trust that that exceptional person will go to the Olympic, to-night or to-morrow night, and give her a chance”; no mention of music

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 June 1866.
4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 03 July 1866.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 July 1866, 102.

Review of final performance, on 06/30/66, after which Mrs. Wood was honored with a lengthy speech by District Attorney A. Oakey Hall as America’s “Queen of Comedy and Song,” text of which is reproduced in full; music not mentioned.