Trodden Down

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Theatre [485 Broadway; 1864-69]

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Aug 1868, Evening
04 Aug 1868, Evening
05 Aug 1868, Evening
06 Aug 1868, Evening
07 Aug 1868, Evening
08 Aug 1868, Evening
08 Aug 1868, 1:30 PM

Program Details

Trodden down advertised as a "romantic Irish drama, with new first and fourth acts by Watkins." It may be a dramatization of the novel Under Two Flags by Ouida.

Mrs. Harry Watkins performed the songs "Erin is my home," "Oh, hear me, sweetheart dear," "Nora O'Neal," and "The dearest spot of earth to me is home" in the course of the play.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Trodden down; or, Under two flags
Text Author: Watkins
Participants:  Rose Watkins;  Harry Watkins
2)
"Erin is my home"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Rose Watkins
3)
"Oh, hear me, sweetheart dear"
aka O, hear me, sweetheart dear
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Rose Watkins
4)
"Nora O'Neil"
aka Nora O'Neal
Composer(s): Hays
Text Author: Hays
Participants:  Rose Watkins
5)
"Dearest spot of earth to me is home, The"
Composer(s): Wrighton
Participants:  Rose Watkins

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 July 1868.

Announces postponement of the Watkins’s engagement for a week.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 27 July 1868, 4.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 27 July 1868, 5.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 August 1868, 7.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 03 August 1868, 4.

Long review; no mention of music (excepting for a noting when songs occur in the play).

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 August 1868, 4.
7)
Review: New-York Times, 09 August 1868, 5.

Very brief: “Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins sustain the principal parts in an acceptable manner.”

8)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 09 August 1868, 4.

No mention of music.

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 August 1868, 150.

“Mrs. Watkins has a good part, to which she does justice.  She sang ‘Erin is my Home,’ ‘Oh, Hear Me, Sweetheart Dear,’ ‘Nora O’Neal’ and ‘The Dearest Spot on Earth’ with much feeling, each one of which was encored.”