Black Crook

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Manager / Director:
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
William Wheatley

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Ballet Director / Choreographer:
David Costa

Price: $0.75; Dress Circle $1 (secured); Reserved seats in Parquette and Parquette Circle $1.50; Family Circle, $.50; Private boxes $8 and $10; all seats $1 for Saturday matinees

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM
25 Dec 1866, 1:00 PM
25 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM
26 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM
27 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM
28 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM
29 Dec 1866, 1:00 PM
29 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Jarrett and Palmer Ballet Troupe;  Hernandez-Foster Pantomime Troupe;  Charles H. Morton [actor];  George C. Boniface;  George Atkins;  J. W. Blaisdell;  Mary Wells;  James G. Burnett;  E. B. [actor] Holmes;  E. Berry [actor] Rendle;  David Costa;  Annie Kemp;  Rose Morton [actor];  Milly Cavendish
2)
Black crook, The, [play]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 December 1866, 4.

105th performance on Dec. 24.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 December 1866, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 24 December 1866, 4.

“On the one hundredth representation all the costumes were changed for new ones, so that to the eye the piece is as fresh as ever. The receipts during the period we have mentioned exceeded a quarter of a million of dollars, and by a strange but significant coincidence there was but a difference of fifty cents between the returns of the first and the returns of the one hundredth night. There is nothing so successful as success.”

4)
Article: New York Clipper, 29 December 1866, 302.

"City Summary" includes poem stanza, "Niblo's" following comments comparing dance in new sensation, "Cendrillon," which eclipses the "Black Crook."