Theater playbill for Landis' Opera Troupe in "The Enchanted Sword" at Melodeon, Washington, D.C., January 5, 1858

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Theater playbill for Landis' Opera Troupe in "The Enchanted Sword" at Melodeon, Washington, D.C., January 5, 1858

Melodeon, late Coombs' Hall, Penn. av. near 10th st. J.W. Landis, manager, M. Coombs, treasurer, J.K. Search, musical director and stage manager. Tuesday evening, January 5th, 1858. Eleventh night of Landis' Opera Troupe, triumphant success, crowds go away unable to get seats. Fourth time of "The Enchanted Sword." Landis as the Harlequin. The Troupe will appear in a new & varied programme. A new and complete change of programme to-night ... The whole to conclude with the laughable pantomime of the "Enchanted Sword".

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Table of Contents

Part 1. Shepherds Quick Step / Mestayer & Co.
Opening Chorus: Coloured Fancy Ball / Troupe
Ballad: Rosalie the Prarie [i.e. Prairie] Flower / R.J. Buckley
Comic Song: Kiss me quick! and go! / Frank Weston
Refrain: The Jolly Raftsman / T. Stone
Comic Song: Phoebeanna White/ J.K. Search
Ballad: Poor Old Slave / Frank Christopher
Comic Song: Husk the Corn / J.W. Landis
Refrain: The Old Time Banjo / R.J. Buckley
Comic Song: The Banjo Beat / J.K. Search
Phantom Chorus / Troupe
Part Two: Quartette / Buckley, Chrisopher, Wallace & Ellis
Violin Solo: Air and Variations / H. Mestayer
Ballad / T. Stone
Cowbellogians, a burlesque on the Swiss Bell Ringers / Search, Weston, Buckley, Ellis, and Wallace
Rattlesnake Jig: By the Champion / H.K. Johnson
Returned Volunteer, or, The Long Lost Brother
Part Three: The Enchanted Sword.

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Title devised by Library staff from item.

Cast: Returned volunteer: Passmore Sparhawk: R.J. Buckley, Charles Ferguson: J.W. Landis, Scotch Strathspey Dance: Master Wallace, Ballad: The Old Arm Chair (by Request): Frank Christopher, Hungarian Warblers: Search, Buckley, Weston & Wallace, Tamborine Solo: R.C. Elliott, Old Bob Ridley: H.K Johnson.

Cast: Enchanted sword: Pantaloon: J.K. Search, Columbine: Master Wallace, Harlequin: J.W. Landis, Landlord: J.H. Ellis, Clown: F. Weston, Villagers, Dancers &c. by the Company.

"In rehearsal and will speedily be produced under the direction of J.K. Search, Taken in & Done For! Black Blunders! Black Statue! Jumbo Jum, &c. Performance every Saturday afternoon at three o'clock"

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).

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Other Titles
Enchanted sword, Tuesday evening, January 5th, 1858, eleventh night of Landis' Opera Troupe, triumphant success, crowds go away unable to get seats

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Library of Congress
Thr. A10 Box 2 no. 88

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1 sheet

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OL30386143M
LCCN
2014657532

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