Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 June 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Dec 1862, Evening
09 Dec 1862, Evening
10 Dec 1862, Evening
11 Dec 1862, Evening

Program Details

Hour in Seville, An (drama with dance) includes:
“Peren bolero” (dance) (Mrs. Williams)
“El Abanico” (dance) (Mrs. Williams)
“La Mentilla” (dance) (Mrs. Williams)
“La Geta Clevorina” (dance) (Mrs. Williams)

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Text Author: Selby
7)
aka Precious Betsy
Text Author: Morton

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 December 1862.

"Born to Luck . . . with a variety of songs . . . During the drama [An hour in Seville] Mrs. B. Williams will dance a ‘Peren Bolero,’ ‘El Abanico,’ ‘La Mentilla,’ ‘La Geta Clevorina.’”

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 09 December 1862, 2.
“[T]he Williamses in Irish and burlesque pieces.”
3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 09 December 1862, 2.

The fourth week of the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams at the Winter Garden opened last evening to an audience which cannot be called unusually large, in consideration of the unvarying liberality with which the public has welcomed each reappearance of these two most popular artists.  The theater was filled in every part. The cleverness of Mrs. William’s performance in the Protean piece, ‘An Hour in Seville’ was handsomely acknowledged by the house, and Mr. Williams’s first appearance in the character of Larry Tope was recognized as adding a new effect to the representation.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 December 1862, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 December 1862, 7.