New Bowery Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Bowery Theatre

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
10 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
11 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
12 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
13 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
14 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Buislay Family;  Mlle. [tight rope] Rosita
2)
Spiral mountain
3)
When the cat’s away the mice will play
4)
Battle of the Amazons on the Bridge of Troy
5)
Watchers, The
6)
Queen of flowers
7)
Niagara leap, [acrobatic feat]
aka Challenge transept flight

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Post, 09 July 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 09 July 1866.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 09 July 1866, 7.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 July 1866, 4.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 July 1866, 7.
6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 14 July 1866.
7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 July 1866, 110.

Explains the “Spiral mountain” feat. Notes that “The management, in doing away with the dramatic company, have not injured the business, for the main feature of the performance was and is the gymnastic part thereof by the Buislays.”