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:
4 September 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
18 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
19 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
20 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
21 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
22 Aug 1868, 1:30 PM
22 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

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)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 August 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 August 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 August 1868, 7.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 18 August 1868, 5.

“The last week of ‘Trodden Down’ is announced at the Broadway. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins have met with well merited success in their new Irish drama, and have played to large audiences ever since the first night of their engagement at this theatre.”

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 18 August 1868, 4.

Announces final week of Trodden Down.

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 August 1868.

Announces "farewell performances" of the Watkins.

7)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1868, 4.
8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 August 1868, 166.

“Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins closed an unproductive engagement at the Broadway Theatre on the 22d inst.”