New-York Theatre: Mrs. Gomersal Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-York Theatre (1866-69)

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Mar 1867, Evening

Program Details

Unclear if “Happy birdling of the forest” was performed as part of one of the plays or independently.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mark Smith;  Mrs. William Gomersal
2)
Little treasure, The
Text Author: Harris
3)
Pocahontas; or, The gentle savage
aka Po-ca-hon-tas; or, Ye gentle savage; Belle sauvage, La
Text Author: Brougham
4)
"Happy birdling of the forest"
Composer(s): Wallace
Text Author: Stewart
Participants:  Mrs. William Gomersal

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 March 1867.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 March 1867.

Cast of Pocahontas.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 26 March 1867.

“The attendance was good, but not so large as the merits of the fair beneficiare would have reasonably led one to expect to see. . . . [Gomersal’s] singing of Wallace’s ‘Happy Birding of the Forest’ secur[ed] for her a most rapturous ovation.”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867, 406.