Benefit of William A. Moore

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 November 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Mar 1870, 1:00 PM

Program Details

Moore, long connected with New York theatres as stage and business manager, has been overtaken by serious illness; event organized by Barney Williams. Recitations by Edmund Falconer, Shakespeare’s ballad of “Anne Hathaway;” Stephen Massett, “The Cripple Story,” and comic sketch of the meeting of the Board of Trade, Hong Kong; Young Harry Jackson, “Shamus O’Brien.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Text Author: Bayly
4)
aka Monsieur Mallet, or, the post-office mistake;
Text Author: Moncrieff
5)
aka Shoo fly don't bother me; Shu fly don't bother me; Shew fly don’t bother me
Composer(s): Howard
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Dave [minstrel] Reed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 March 1870, 10.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 17 March 1870, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 March 1870, 2.

Includes complete cast listings.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 March 1870, 7.
5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 March 1870, 7.
6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 March 1870, 4.
7)
Review: New York Herald, 24 March 1870, 3.

No mention of music.

8)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 March 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 April 1870, 414.

No mention of music.