Event Information

Venue(s):
Laura Keene's Theatre (1862-63)

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 July 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Apr 1863, Evening
25 Apr 1863, Evening

Program Details

Benefit of Charles Peters [FRI].

Additional performers: "others".

Colleen Bawn; or, the brides of Garryowen included original music by Thomas Baker.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke;  Laura Keene (role: Anne Chute);  Charles [comedian] Peters
2)
Colleen Bawn; or, The brides of Garryowen
aka Brides of Garryowen; Paddy Murphy
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Charles [comedian] Peters (role: Father Tom)
3)
Spectre bridegroom, The; or, A ghost in spite of himself
Text Author: Moncrieff
Participants:  Charles [comedian] Peters (role: Diggory)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1863, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 April 1863, 2.

Mentions Peters benefit.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 April 1863, 1.

“Mr. Chas. Peters takes his benefit at Laura Keene’s to-night. We need scarcely add that the beneficiary is a popular and most deserving artist, and that there ought to be a crowded house on the occasion.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1863, 7.

 

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 25 April 1863, 2.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 April 1863, 7.

 “Magnificent Music.”