Winter Garden

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Manager / Director:
William [critic, manager] Stuart

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 April 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
07 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
08 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
09 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
10 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
11 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
aka Po-ca-hon-tas; or, Ye gentle savage; Belle sauvage, La
Text Author: Brougham
5)
aka Scotch polka
Composer(s): Brougham

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 August 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New York Post, 06 August 1866.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 06 August 1866, 4.

     “The musical bit of ‘Jenny Leatherlung’s’ is given before the introduction of ‘Pocohontas’ [sic]—both are good and full of suggestive fun.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 06 August 1866.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 07 August 1866, 4.
6)
Review: New-York Times, 08 August 1866, 5.

     “The successful revival of ‘Pocahontas’ bids fair to be a feature in the season of theatricals. It is carefully placed upon the stage, and the cast is thoroughly admirable. Mr. Brougham is the same old Powhatan as of yore. His war paint and Indianesqueries are singularly becoming; also, effective. He sings and dances and smokes and plays Injun with the abandon and humor which in other days made his Powhatan a gem of purest ray serene. Mr. Dunn as John Smith, the fortunate bridegroom of the original Pocahontas, is, of course, good.  Walcot's Dutchman is stupid—intentional, of course, but none the less successfully stupid. Miss Melville assumes the rôle of Pocahontasto the delight of a numerous clientellee [sic] and invests it with a certain vivacious interest which it originally lacked. The choruses are excellent, the processions fine, the whole a success.”

7)
Review: New York Post, 09 August 1866, 2.

     “Pocahontas” is “the perfection of ridiculous, extravagant and enjoyable nonsense.”

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 11 August 1866, 142.

     “Our old friend, ‘Pocahontas,’ is revived at Winter Garden this week, ‘Columbus Reconstructed’ not proving quite as endurable or lasting as ‘Poco,’ which latter seems to please all classes of theatre-goers, and in which John Brougham shows to far better advantage, both as author and actor.”