THE LOCAL STAGE.
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Commencing Monday evening and continuing during the week, “The Romany Rye” will occupy the boards at the Opera house. “The Romany Rye,” after two years of success at the Princess theater in London, and the same period in this country, will be produced at the Opera house to-morrow night, for one week—with Wednesday and Saturday matinees. It will be produced here with a cast of seventy-five people, twenty-seven gypsies and seventeen sets of superb scenery, direct from New York. It has been crowding the largest opera houses throughout England and America for two years. Following is the cast:
Jack Hearne, “The Romany Rye”
…Walter L. Dennis
Boss Knivett…Luke Martin
Philip Roylston…Geo.B. Berrill
Joe Heckett…J.M. Jordan
Edward Marsden…James Dunn
Goliath Lee…J.P. Davis
Black Nathan…Charles David
Dimity Lee,} Gypsy {…Miss Maggie Dean
Sol Lee } boys. {…Miss Daisy Dean
Jabez Duck…Julian Reed
Scragger…Geo. McDonald
Ginger Bill…Frank Dowd
Curley…G.B. Barion
Capt. David…H.A. Hanker
Plato…Robert Neill
Detective…Alfred Williams
Boatman…Joan Burton
Officer of steamer…Charles Parsons
Emigrant…J.P. Newell
Policeman…W. Blanding
Constables…Messrs. Duun & Harris
Master Slive…Charles Osborne
“Old Waterloo”…George Notham
Gertie Heckett…Miss Ettie Baker
Lurs Lee…Miss Bertha Foy
Queenie…Miss Bessie Taylor
Kiomi Lee…Mrs. W. G. Jones
Mother Shipton…Mrs. W. G. Jones
Miss Adrian…Miss Mary Tucker
Mrs. Knivett…Mrs. Tanna Hill
Mrs. Curley…Miss Maria Sheldon
Philadelphia….Miss M. F. Denin
Landlady of the Inn…Miss Fanny Bond
At the Academy, “The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief” will produced by the New York Opera company for three nights, commencing Monday evening. The cast is given elsewhere.
Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Jan. 20, 1884.