First night of the Zouaves! at the Howard Athenaeum, Boston, February 24, 1862
Contributors: Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: F.A. Searle's Plain and Ornamental Job Printing Establishment, Journal Building, 188 Washington Street
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Zouaves
Other titles: Zouaves
Description: Howard Athenaeum. Sole lessee and manager, Mr. W.M. Fleming. For positively one week only! Greatest novelty of the season! First night of the Zouaves! (Original founders artists of the Theatre at Inkermann, during the Crimean War) ... New York Academy of Music! These are the original French soldiers! who formed themselves into a dramatic corps before the walls of Sebastopol and during many of their representations were attacked by the Russians! ... The Zouaves perform the ladies' parts in their plays! Monday evening, Feb. 24, 1862, the performance will commence with the great military overture of The Reminiscences of France! composed and dedicated by Mr. Cook, leader of the Niblo's Orchestra, to the Zouaves ...
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

Cast: Militaire et pensionnaire: Zouave Leau, Zouave Chelu, Zouave Frederick, Zouave Hettinger.

Cast: The two fishermen: Frederick, Augusta.

Cast: Une fille terrible: Zouave Leon, Zouave Frederick, Zouave George, Zouave Chelu, Zouave Augusta, Zouave Leon.

LC copy rehoused: 2014-08-14. Shelved in Oversize.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Militaire et pensionnaire (Episode from the Crimean War, in 5 acts); title: The Two Fishermen! Comic opera in 1 act, music from Offenback; title: La Marseillaise, sung by Zouave Frederick; title: 96 coup de Canou, overture, composed and dedicated to the Zouaves by Mr. Sodermaun, Stockholm; title: Une fille terrible, comedy vaudeville in 1 act; title: Ambuscade at Tracktir, military show in one scene. Forty Zouaves and thirty Russians in full uniform will appear in this scene; title: To conclude, the Zouaves will sing their own song, Le Rondaue de Zou Zou by all the company.