Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams: Barney Williams Benefit

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)

12 Dec 1862, Evening

Program Details

Benefit of Barney Williams (FRI)

dancers

Shandy McGuire (with songs and dances) includes: Irish Jig and Irish songs (Mr. Williams) and “Yankee fixings” (song – Mrs. Williams).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Shandy Maguire; or, The bould boy of the mountain
aka Shandy McGuire; Bould boy of the mountain
Text Author: Pilgrim
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams;  Barney Williams
2)
Irish jigs
Participants:  Barney Williams
3)
"Yankee fixings"
Composer(s): Unidentified
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams
4)
Latest from New York
Text Author: Coyne
5)
Prince Doloroso
Text Author: Unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 December 1862, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 December 1862, 7.
“Mr. Barney Williams will appear as Shandy Maguire, Neil Flaherty, Andy Gentigan, and Phil Mulligan, with an Irish Jig and several Irish songs. Mrs. Barney Williams as Seraphina Yernia Sprout, with the song of ‘Yankee Fixings.’”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 December 1862, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 December 1862, 7.
“Repetition of the Glorious Benefit Bill.”
5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 December 1862, 2.
“The benefit of Mr. Williams, last Friday, overflowed the house, which, on every other evening has been corded almost beyond its limits.”