Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams: Mrs. Williams Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 June 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Dec 1862, Evening

Program Details

Benefit of Mrs. Barney Williams [FRI]

dancers

Law for ladies
Includes song: “Lovely Nancy” (Mrs. Williams)

Irish assurance and Yankee modesty (with songs – first act only)
Includes songs: “Widow Machree” (Mr. Williams)
“My Mary Ann” (Mrs. Williams)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams;  Barney Williams
2)
All hallow eve; or, Rody O'Conner
aka Snapple-apple night; Snap apple night
Text Author: Coyne
3)
Law for ladies; or, 'Tis so reported
aka Tis so reported
4)
Law for ladies, "Lovely Nancy"
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams
5)
Irish assurance and Yankee modesty
Text Author: Pilgrim
6)
"My Mary Ann"
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams
7)
"Widow Machree"
aka Widow Magee
Composer(s): Lover
Text Author: Lover
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 December 1862, 7.
“Irish and Yankee Songs and Dances.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 December 1862, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 December 1862, 2.

          “Neither depressing war news, nor bad weather, nor the nipping and the eager frost affects the solid amplitude of their [The Williams’] audiences.  Every evening last week witnessed a renewal of the public’s substantial considerations.  Mrs. Williams’s benefit on Friday evening completed that Celtic circle of enchantment to which one of the countrymen of this distinguished couple has alluded with feeling frequency [sic].”