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 ..

Alternate Title:

Corsair

Contributor:

Summerville, Annie (actor); Charter, William R. (printer)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943; Rice's Burlesque Company

Date:

1888

Language:

English

Publisher:

Charter Print, 908 Filbert St

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Rice, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1848-1924. Corsair; Braham, John J. Corsair; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 27.7 x 12.9 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Printed area measures 27.2 x 9.7 cm.; Performance date: May 7, 1888.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 96 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 96

Collection:

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)