Theatre. The Public are respectfully informed, that the Managers have engaged the appearance of A Living Elephant. Friday Evening, March 22, 1822, Will be presented the admired Comedy of the Follies of a Day; Or, the Marriage of Figaro. Being the Sequel to the Barber of Seville. Written by Beaumarchais, and translated by Mr. Holcroft, author of the Road to Ruin, &c. Count Almaviva, Mr. Wood. ... : After which the favourite grand Musical Romance, called the Forty Thieves. In the course of which will appear A Living Elephant, (The largest Animal of the kind ever exhibited in America) superbly caparisoned, with Riders, &c. in the Asiatic Style. Cassim Baba, the rich brother, Mr. Hathwell. ..

Alternate Title:

Follies of a Day; Or, the Marriage of Figaro; Follies of a Day; Marriage of Figaro; Forty Thieves

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1822

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. Follies of a day; Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826. Forty thieves; Colman, George, 1762-1836. Forty thieves; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. Forty thieves; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 44.5 x 17.3 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 37.1 x 15.2 cm.; Performance date: March 22, 1822.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21B no. 26 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21B no. 26

Collection:

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