Worrell Sisters

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Theatre [485 Broadway; 1864-69]

Price: $.50

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 December 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Jan 1867, Evening
29 Jan 1867, Evening
30 Jan 1867, Evening
31 Jan 1867, Evening
01 Feb 1867, Evening
02 Feb 1867, Evening

Program Details

Friday performance to benefit Jennie Worrell.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Irene Worrell;  Jennie Worrell;  Welsh Edwards;  George W. Stoddart;  Ella Turner;  Thomas L. Donnelly (role: The Stock);  Mrs. Harry Chapman;  Anne Hartley Gilbert [actress];  Sophie Worrell
2)
Aladdin, [burlesque]
aka Aladdin; or, The wonderful scamp
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)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 26 January 1867, 393.

"The three Worrell sisters perform again in concert-salon style entertainment at the Broadway Theater."

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 January 1867.

“Misses SOPHIE and IRENE in their charming DUETS and DUO DANCES. Miss JENNIE in her famous CLOG DANCE. Mrs. G. H. Gilbert in her accomplished comic dances…FRIDAY, FEBURARY 1. BENEFIT OF MISS JENNIE.”

3)
Review: New York Herald, 29 January 1867, 7.

“Last evening the Worrell Sisters appeared at this house in two burlesques, entitled respectively Aladdin and Cinderella. The house was crowded in every part, and the rollicking style of these favorite actresses received due appreciation in the hands of the audience. Misses Irene, Sophie and Jennie severally distinguished themselves in their especial rôles, and Mr. Donnelly, of the ‘stock,’ made a flattering hit in his broad burlesque characters. His ‘make up’ was most artistic and his by play extremely ludicrous.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 09 February 1867, 350.

Long and positive review, but nothing about music. “A Good Bill of Fare was served up last week at the Broadway Theatre by the Worrell Sisters…Jennie Worrell appeared as Aladdin, a fast youth, and succeeded in bringing down the house with her clog dancing and her saucy, impertinent and nonchalant acting of the role…On Friday evening Jennie was the recipient of a benefit, when the house was crowded. She was presented with a number of baskets of flowers, and a beautiful stand about three feet high, containing three large boquets gotten up in handsome style.”