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: Walter [New Bowery] Grisdale; Livingstone Robert Shewell; James C. Dunn [actor]; John Brougham; Frederick George Maeder; Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams; Robert [actor] Pateman; Barney Williams; C. H. [actor] Vandenhoff; Edmund Falconer; Charles [actor] Fechter; Emma Skerrett; Carlotta Leclercq; M. Levick; George H. [actor] Clarke; James William, Jr. Wallack; Mrs. C. M., Jr. Walcot

2)

Hamlet, [play], act 2

Text Author: Shakespeare

Participants: Charles [actor] Fechter; Carlotta Leclercq; Emilie C. Boughton; Edmund Falconer

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 Herald, 05 June 1870, 9.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 June 1870, 7.

3)

Review: New York Herald, 08 June 1870, 10.

Brief; no mention of music.