New Theatre. Performance Every Evening This Week. The managers respectfully state, that for the better accommodation of the public, the office for the sale of Box Tickets, is now placed within the Vestibule, the nearest door to Sixth Street. Last Night but One of Mr. Wallack's Engagement. Wednesday Evening, January 22, 1823, Will be presented the Musical Play of The Mountaineers. Octavian, Mr. Wallack. ... : After which, (not acted these 3 years) a petite Opera, called My Aunt. Written by Samuel H. Arnold, Esq. Author of the Woodman's Hut, the Devil's Bridge, &c. &c. and performed in London, Boston and New York, with general applause. Dashnall, Mr. Wallack. ..

Alternate Title:

Mountaineers; My Aunt

Contributor:

Wallack, James William, 1795-1864 (actor); Wallack, Henry John, Mrs., -1845 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Colman, George, 1762-1836. Mountaineers; Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802. Mountaineers; Arnold, Samuel James, 1774-1852. My aunt; 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) : illustration; 33.3 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 26.5 x 15.3 cm.; Performance date: January 22, 1823.; The Mountaineers, libretto by George Colman, music by Samuel Arnold.; This performance features two members of the Wallack family.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 43 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. 43

Collection:

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