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1. Chestnut St. Theatre. Special Notice.-The audience is respectully requested To Retain Their Seats In The 3d Act until the fall of the Curtain on the Grandest Transformation Scene ever witnessed. Beginning Monday, May 7, 1888. With Wednesday and Saturday Matinees at 2 o'clock. Direct from the New York Run of 175 Nights. Rice's Burlesque Company. 65 Artists. Who will appear in Rice & Dixey's Sumptuous Production of the fascinating Spectacular Byronical, Operatic Burlesque or Opera-Bouffe, in three acts, replete with Original Music, Fascinating Novelties and Bewildering Situations, entitled The Corsair (Libretto adapted from the early English and other sources.) Music by Edward E. Rice and John J. Braham. New and Original Stage Business by Mr. Henry E. Dixey, and the following Great Cast of Characters: Conrad, the Corsiar, familiarly known as "The Scourge fo the Seas." Ironical and Byronical, Annie Summerville ..
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Contributor:
Summerville, Annie (actor); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:
1888
Language:
English
Publisher:
Charter Print, 908 Filbert St
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 96
2. Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; George Kemerle, Treasurer. J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., Assistant Treasurer. Charles E. Semple, Gas Machinest and Engineer. Wm. Clark, Master Machinest. Wm. Hassitt, Property Maker. Every Evening, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. First Appearance in this city of Mr. & Mrs. Kendal (Under the direction of Mr. Daniel Frohman,) And Their Own Company, In The Iron Master. Being an English Version, by A. W. Pinero, of George Ohnet's Drama, "Le Maitre de Forges." Cast of Characters. Phillipe Derblay, Mr. Kendal ..
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Kendal, William Hunter, 1843-1917 (actor); Kendal, Madge, 1849-1935 (actor); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:
1889
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Charter Printing House, 908 Filbert St
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 98
3. Chestnut Street Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; S. M. Heilburn, Business Manager. Geo. Kemerle, W. H. Pennoyer, Treasurers. Henry Wannemacher, Leader of the Orchestra. Monday, October 25th, 1886. Matinees Wednesday & Saturday. Second Week of Rudolph Aronson's New York Casino Opera Co., The first time the Casino Opera Company have ever appeared outside of their own Theatre, presenting Erminie By Paulton and Jacobowski, Performed 375 nights, at the Comedy Theatre, Londo, Casino, New York, and Globe, Boston, with immense success. Cast Of Characters: Erminie, Pauline Hall ..
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Contributor:
Hall, Pauline, 1860-1919 (actor); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:
1886
Language:
English
Publisher:
Charter, Print., 908 Filbert St
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 92
4. Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; S. M. Heilburn, Business Manager. Overture, Galathea by Suppe, under the direction of H. Wannemacher. Henry E. Dixey, Suported by the Efficient Organization, Rice & Dixey's Big Burlesque Co. Edward E. Rice, Manager. After their brilliantly successful engagements covering 619 Perfo rmances in New York. 97 Nights at the Hollis St. Theatre, Boston. 100 Nights at the Gairty Theatre, London. In Messrs. Gill & Dixey's fascinating Grotesque Nightmare in Two Acts, entitled Adonis. With Original and Selected Music, and the Following Great Cast Of Characters: Adonis, An accomplished young gentleman, of undeniably good family, in as much as he can trace his ancestry back through the Genozoic, Msezoic, and Palaeozoic period, until he finds it resting on the Archaean Time. His family name, by the way, is "Marble", Mr. Henry E. Dixey ..
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Contributor:
Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943 (actor); Rice, Edward E. 1848-1924 (manager); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:
1887
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Charter, Printing House, 908 Filbert St
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 95
5. Chestnut Street Theatre. Every Evening, Wednesday and Saturday Matinees, Last Week Of Rudolph Aronson's Comic Opera Company, Presenting the N. Y. Casino Success, The Brigands, Operetta in Three Acts. Libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Music by Jacques Offenbach. Produced under the Direction of Mr. Max Freeman. Cast of Characters. Fiorella, the Brigand's daughter, Lillian Russell ..
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Contributor:
Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922 (actor); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:
1889
Language:
English
Publisher:
Charter Print, 998 Filbert St
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 97
6. Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; Every Evening Wednesday and Saturday Matinees. The Famous Author And Actor, Mr. Edward Harrigan, And His New York Company, Under The Management Of, M. W. Hanley, Mr. Edward Harrigan's Great New York Success, in Three Acts, entitled, Squatter Sovereignty; People Of The Play. Felix McIntyre, Mr. Edward Harrigan ..
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Contributor:
Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911 (actor); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:
1890
Language:
English
Publisher:
Charter Printer, 908 Filbert St
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 100; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 99