Theatre. Performance Every Evening This Week. Thursday Evening, December 13, 1821, Will be presented, (second time this season) a Melo-Dramatic Opera, in 3 acts, called the Devil's Bridge. The Music by Braham and Horn. Count Belino, Mr. Nichols, in which he will sing the following Songs, viz. "Behold in his soft expressive face,"--"Though love is warm awhile,"--"Is there a heart that never lov'd,"--"Fancy's Sketch," &c. &c. Baron Toraldi, Mr. H. Wallack. ... : To which will be added, the favourite Farce of the Weathercock. Old Fickle, Mr. Francis. ..

Alternate Title:

Devil's Bridge; Weathercock

Contributor:

Wallack, Henry John, 1790-1870 (actor); Francis, William, 1756 or 1757-1826 (actor)

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1821

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Arnold, Samuel James, 1774-1852. Devil's bridge; Braham, John, 1774-1856. Devil's bridge; Horn, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1786-1849. Devil's bridge; Allingham, John Till, active 1799-1810. Weathercock; King, M. P. (Matthew Peter), 1773-1823. Weathercock; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 26.8 x 17.6 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 24.7 x 15.2 cm.; Performance date: December 13, 1821.; The weathercock; libretto by J.T. Allingham, music by M. P. King.; The Chestnut Street Theatre was destroyed by fire on April 2, 1820. While the theater was being reconstructed, the players performed at the Walnut Street Theatre.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A 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 21A no. 96

Collection:

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