Dramatic Festival: Edmund Falconer Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 September 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Jun 1870, 1:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  James William, Jr. Wallack;  Carlotta Leclercq;  Charles [actor] Fechter;  Charles H. [actor] Vandenhoff;  Robert [actor] Pateman;  Frederick George Maeder;  James C. Dunn [actor];  Walter [New Bowery] Grisdale;  Mrs. C. M., Jr. Walcot;  Livingstone Robert Shewell;  George H. [actor] Clarke;  Milnes Levick;  Emma Skerrett;  Edmund Falconer;  Barney Williams;  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams;  John Brougham
2)
Hamlet, [play], act 2
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Emilie C. Boughton;  Edmund Falconer;  Charles [actor] Fechter;  Carlotta Leclercq
3)
Customs of the country; or, Yankee help
Text Author: Unknown playwright
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams
4)
As you like it, selection
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  George H. [actor] Clarke;  James William, Jr. Wallack
5)
As you like it, "Blow, blow thou winter wind"
Composer(s): Arne
6)
Sheep in wolf’s clothing, A
Text Author: Taylor [dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 June 1870, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 June 1870, 9.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 08 June 1870, 10.

Brief; no mention of music.