Theater program for "Babes in the Wood, or Who Killed Cock Robin!" Bush Street Theatre, San Francisco, November 24, 1879
Contributors: Gill, William, active 1882-1897; Colville Opera Burlesque Company; Bush Street Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [Publisher not identified]
Published: 1879
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif.]
Language: eng
Other titles: Babes in the wood; Who killed Cock Robin; New grand and glittering pantomine burlesque extravaganza ... entitled (Colville's) babes in the wood.
Description: Bush Street Theatre, Chas. E. Locke, proprietor. Fourth week of the engagement of The Colville Opera Burlesque Company, musical and stage director, Mr. Jesse Williams, stage manager, Mr. Wm. Forrester. Monday November 24, 1879, Thanksgiving matinee, Thursday, Nov. 27, also Saturday matinee, Nov. 29, the new grand and glittering pantomime burlesque extravaganza, gathered from H.J. Byrons' burlesque, several sources of authorship, compensated for, re-written, revised and constructed by Wm. Gill new music especially selected and arranged, the whole the exclusive property of Samuel Collville, is in two acts, and entitled (Colville's) "Babes in the Wood, or, Who Killed Cock Robin!" with new scenery, new costumes and appointments, and the following powerful cast of characters.
Notes: [San Francisco, California], Bush Street Theatre, Monday, November 24, Thursday, Nov. 27, Saturday, Nov. 29, 1879.

Title devised by Library staff from item.

Cast: Mlle. Eme Roseau, Mr. Roland Reed, Miss Carrie McHenry, Miss Annie Deacon, Mr. Wm. Forrester, Miss Fanny Wright, Miss Ella Chapman, Mr. R.E. Graham, Miss Ada Lee, Miss Rose Leighton, Miss Kate Everleigh, Mr. A.W. Maflin, Mr. Horace Frail, Mr. Amberg, Mr. De Smith, Mr. Tom Adair, Miss Alice Wright, Elsia Loane, Frederica Stockmeyer, Ethel Avery, Emma Lyster, Mollie Stockmeyer and Emma Donahue, Glennie Slocum.

Available in digital form on the Library of Congress Digital Collections Web site: Variety Stage: Theater Playbills and Programs under the title: A new grand and glittering pantomine [sic] burlesque extravaganza . . . entitled (Colville's) babes in the wood.

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