Rip Van Winkle

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Manager / Director:
Leonard Grover

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Sep 1866, Evening
18 Sep 1866, Evening
19 Sep 1866, Evening
20 Sep 1866, Evening
21 Sep 1866, Evening
22 Sep 1866, Evening

Program Details

A performance of The Ice Witch featuring Joe Jefferson at 2pm on Wednesday was advertised in the Times on 09/17/66 within the advertisement for these performances of Rip van Winkle. The Times then reports on 09/18 and 09/19, again within the advertisements for Rip van Winkle, that the Wednesday matinee had been cancelled. There is no explanation for the cancellation. There does not appear to have been a Saturday matinee this week, either.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Rip Van Winkle, [play by Boucicault]
aka Rip Van Winkle; or, The sleep of twenty years
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Joseph, III Jefferson [actor]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 September 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 September 1866, 4.
3)
Review: New York Post, 18 September 1866.

 “The brilliant attractions at Niblo’s do not, however, affect the size of crowds who nightly enjoy Mr. Joe Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle, at the Olympic.” Our copy cuts off. There may be more.

4)
Review: New York Post, 18 September 1866.

 “The brilliant attractions at Niblo’s do not, however, affect the size of crowds who nightly enjoy Mr. Joe Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle, at the Olympic.” Our copy cuts off. There may be more.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 September 1866, 7.
6)
Review: New York Post, 20 September 1866.

“At the Olympic there is no change to chronicle. The same crowded condition of the house; the same unsurpassed Joe Jefferson still playing ‘Rip Van Winkle;’ and the same delighted audiences—night after night.”

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 September 1866, 190.

“That Sleepy Piece called ‘Rip Van Winkle’ attracts anything but sleepy audiences to the Olympic, the house being thronged every night. Joe Jefferson plays for a big stake, yet Manager Grove finds him to be a profitable card.”