Ice Witch

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Manager / Director:
Leonard Grover

Price: $.50 family circle

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Sep 1866, 2:00 PM
08 Sep 1866, 2:00 PM

Program Details

The “Grand German Opera Chorus” also performed. See AD: NYT 09/05/66.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Ice witch, The; or, The frozen hand
aka Frozen hand
Text Author: Buckstone, Daniel
Participants:  Emma Webb;  Ada Webb
2)
Ice witch, The; or The frozen hand, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Baker

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 September 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 September 1866, 5.

“Olympic Theatre.—The ‘Ice Witch’ is dead and gone, and will henceforth be revived no more after the matinée of Wednesday and Saturday.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 05 September 1866, 5.

Part of review for Rip Van Winkle.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 September 1866, 7.

“the grand german opera chorus appear at the Matinee to-day in the gorgeous ice witch.”

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 08 September 1866, 174.

“‘The Ice Witch,’ which has been attracting such large audiences at the Olympic for some time, is to be given on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons only, so that the little folks can see it without having to stay up late at night.”