Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 April 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Aug 1866, Evening
21 Aug 1866, Evening
22 Aug 1866, Evening
23 Aug 1866, Evening
24 Aug 1866, Evening
25 Aug 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Grover German Opera Company, chorus;  Theresa Wood [dancer-voc];  Emma Webb;  Ada Webb
2)
Incidental music, unidentified
Composer(s): Baker
3)
Ice witch, The; or, The frozen hand
aka Frozen hand
Text Author: Buckstone, Daniel
4)
Day too late, A
Text Author: Unknown playwright
Participants:  Emma Webb;  Ada Webb

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 August 1866.
2)
Review: New-York Times, 20 August 1866, 5.

Brief, music not mentioned; notes fifth week of perfs.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 August 1866.
4)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 August 1866, 2.
5)
Advertisement: New York Post, 20 August 1866.
6)
Review: New York Post, 23 August 1866, 2.

     “Under the energetic management of Mr. Grover the Olympic is assuming a greater relative importance among our theatres that [sic] it ever before had.  The introduction of a really good and effective chorus is one of his happy thoughts, but the vigor and enterprise of the manager is manifest in many other respects. The ‘Ice Witch,’ Mr. Grover’s first enterprise at the Olympic, has been a complete success for this reason. An attractive spectacle, it is so well put on the stage that the interest in it increases rather than diminishes.”

7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 August 1866.