Emerald Ring

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 July 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Apr 1869, Evening
06 Apr 1869, Evening
07 Apr 1869, Evening
08 Apr 1869, Evening
09 Apr 1869, Evening
10 Apr 1869, Matinee
10 Apr 1869, Evening

Program Details

These performances were the last held at the Bowery Theatre; see advertisement in the New York Herald.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Emerald ring, The
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams (role: Maggie Macarty);  Barney Williams (role: Mike Macarty)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 April 1869, 12.

“These entertainments will be the LAST PERFORMANCES IN THIS THEATRE, arrangements having been made after May for its TOTAL DESTRUCTION AND CONVERSION INTO OTHER PURPOSES. The piece and artistes selected are chosen with a view to give a fitting eclat TO SO MEMORABLE AN EVENT as the final closing of THIS TEMPLE OF THE LEGITIMATE DRAMA.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 April 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 April 1869, 7.

“The existence of the Broadway Theatre is limited; its days are numbered, its end is at hand. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams commenced on Monday evening the last engagement which will be played within its once honored walls. The theatre was built eighteen years ago, for Mr. Brougham, and it is a coincidence to find the first theatre managed by that comedian on the point of destruction, at the moment when he is giving up the management of his last.” Notes large audience on Tuesday (04/06/69); no mention of music.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 April 1869, 7.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 April 1869, 14.

“The Williamses commenced a brief engagement at the Broadway Theatre on the 5th inst. The attendance was not as great as has generally greeted them, the house not being more than two-thirds filled, which is probably an evidence of the wane of Irish drama, the unpopularity of the house, and that they came too soon after their last engagement.”