Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; Geo. Kemerle, Treasurer. Charles Semple, Gas Machinist and Engineer. Wm. Clark, Master Carpenter. Geo. Hershberger, Property Master. Every Evening This Week. Matinees: Wednesday, Thursday (New Year's Day) and Saturday. Francis Wilson And Company, From The Broadway Theatre, N.Y. Presenting for the First Time Here A New Operetta In 3 Acts, Entitled The Merry Monarch; Under the management of Mr. A. H. Canby. Libretto by, J. Cheever Goodwin; Music by, Woolson Morse; Orchestration by, John Philip Sousa. Cast Of Characters. King Anso IV., the Merry Monarch, Mr. Francis Wilson ..

Alternate Title:

Merry Monarch

Contributor:

Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935 (actor); Morrell Brothers (printer)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Nixon-Nirdlinger, Samuel F., 1848-1918; Zimmerman, J. Frederick, 1840 or 1841-1925; Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932; Francis Wilson & Company

Date:

1891

Language:

English

Publisher:

Morrell Brothers, Show Printers, 511-513 Arch Street, Philadelphia

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Goodwin, J. Cheever (John Cheever), 1850-1912. Merry monarch; Morse, Woolson, 1858-1897. Merry monarch; Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894. Étoile; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 34.8 x 13.3 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 30.8 x 10.5 cm.; Merry Monarch adapted by J. Cheever Goodwin and Woolson Morse from E. Chabrier's L'Etoile; music arranged by John Philip Sousa. Cf. Loewenberg, Annals of opera, 1970, col. 1066-7.; Print Collection 8 copy has date "1/2/91" added in ms.; Print Collection 8 copy 2 has date "1/3/91" added in ms.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 103 in a collection of playbills housed together.; Print Collection 8 copy 2 is box 18 no. 104 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. 103; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 104

Collection:

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