Event Type
Dramatic
Event Details
Troupe: General Tom Thumb
Venue Type: Theatre
Location: Liverpool
County: Lancashire
Type: Dramatic
Venue: Royal Liver Theatre
Location: Liverpool
County: Lancashire
Type: Dramatic
Venue: Royal Liver Theatre
Date
-
Date notes
Saturday
Casting
Event Program
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8
| Title | Performed Person / Troupe | Notes | Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucy Long | Thumb | General TomThumb | American, Song | |||
| Yankee Doodle | Thumb | General TomThumb | American, Song | |||
| African alarmed at the Thunder, The | Thumb | General TomThumb | one of Thumb's "classical representations from The Ancient Statues” | |||
| Slave sharpening his knife whilst overhearing the Conspirators, The | Thumb | General TomThumb | one of Thumb's "classical representations from The Ancient Statues” |
Bibliographic Sources
- British Library, BL Mic. C. 13137 Playbills 245: February 17, 1844 (Liver):Info in Record:
- Performance Type: Dramatic
- Performers Listed: “General Tom Thumb” (“the American Dwarf”)
- Days & Times: “Saturday, Feb. 17, 1844”
- Venue Name: “Theatre-Royal, Church-Street, Liverpool, (Late Royal Liver Theatre)”
- Other Acts on Bill: “Mr. Halford…will sing ‘The Bay of Biscay’” (3rd), “the New Farce of My Wife’s Lodgings; Or, Landed from China” (doesn’t seem to be race related – other than the title, 4th), “a Melo-Drama, founded on fact, called Pitcairn Island; Or, The Mutineers of the Bounty” (6th).
- Program Info: Tom Thumb: several acts not clearly connected to race/minstrelsy, plus: “snatches of American Songs, including Yankee Doodle, Miss Lucy Long, &c.” (2nd), “classical representations from The Ancient Statues” including “The African alarmed at the Thunder” and “The Slave sharpening his knife whilst overhearing the Conspirators” (5th). Also, (other race-related): “Sheridan’s Historical Play of Pizarro. Or, the Death of Rolla”
- Other: benefit, performance time, ticket info, other (surrounding events at venue)