Wood’s Theatre: Sophie Worrell Benefit

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
21 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Worrell Sisters;  Kathleen O'Neil;  Alfred [skater] Moe
2)
Mrs. Smith; or, The wife and the widow
Text Author: Payne
3)
Cinderella; or, The lover, the lackey, and the little glass slipper
aka Cinderella e la comare; Cinderella burlesque; Cinderella; or, the prince, the lackey, and the little glass slipper; Clorinda, the girl of the period
Text Author: Byron

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 July 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New York Post, 20 July 1866.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 July 1866, 7.

“Irish Songs”

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 27 July 1866, 5.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 28 July 1866, 126.

“‘Mrs. Smith’ did not go off smoothly; neither was it very amusing or at all interesting in its action,” although it attracted “a very crowded and fashionable audience.”  In “Cinderella” Jennie and Irene Worrell played Dandini and Cinderella, Sophie played the Prince, and Leffingwell played Clorinda. “Leffingwell’s make up and acting of Clorinda was equal to anything in that line we have yet witnessed in this city. . . . Irene’s Cinderella was one of that lady’s best performances.”