Trodden Down

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 September 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
11 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
12 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
13 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
14 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1868, Matinee
15 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

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

2)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Rose Watkins
3)
aka O, hear me, sweetheart dear
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Rose Watkins
4)
aka Nora O'Neal
Composer(s): Hays
Text Author: Hays
Participants:  Rose Watkins
5)
Composer(s): Wrighton
Participants:  Rose Watkins

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 August 1868.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 10 August 1868, 8.

This drama has been well received and continues to be successful.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 August 1868, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 August 1868, 7.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 15 August 1868, 4.

Brief: “Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins sustain the principal parts in a manner which is pleasing to their audiences. Mrs. Watkins sings several pretty Irish songs, and always wins an encore.

6)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 August 1868, 4.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 August 1868, 158.

Brief: “The attendance at the Broadway is very light, and that at the New York not much better.”