Devil’s Auction

Event Information

Venue(s):
Banvard's Opera House [JUNE 1867-]

Manager / Director:
John de [manager] Pol

Conductor(s):
Auguste Predigam

Price: Orchestra chairs, $1.50; Parquet Circle, $1; Balcony chairs, $1.50; Balcony circle, $1; Dress circle chairs, $1; General admission and dress circles, $.75; Family circle, $.50; Proscenium boxes, $8 and $10.

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
08 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
09 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
10 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
11 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
12 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Full company also includes Robert McWade, H. B. Philips, M. C. Daly, E. Mortimer, D. W. Miller, J. H. Philips, J. Thompson, S. B. Duffield, Fanny Stocqueler, Fanny Reeves, Emma Somers, Ada Meyers
All actors in the play are American debuts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Devil’s auction; or, The golden branch, [melodrama]
Text Author: Cuyás
Participants:  Giuseppina Morlachi;  Elisa [actor] Blasina;  Augusta [dancer] Sohlke;  Ermesilda [actor] Diani;  Eugenie [actor] Lupo;  Aurelia [actor] Ricci;  Catrina [actor] Corradine;  Giovanni [actor] Lupo;  Domenico [actor] Ronzani
2)
Devil's auction, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Predigam

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 October 1867, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 07 October 1867, 4.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 October 1867.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 10 October 1867, 5.

“The ‘Devil’s Auction’ has also been much curtailed, and being deprived of one entire act, the dances are brought more closely together, the story of the piece don’t suffer [sic], and the audiences at Banvard’s seem to be quite as much pleased with the return they receive for their money as though the performances lasted an hour and a half longer.”

5)
Review: New York Herald, 10 October 1867, 3.

“unquestionable success”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 14 October 1867, 4.

“. . . at which none of the lookers-on are sold . . .”