As You Like It

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Edwin Thomas Booth

Manager / Director:
Edwin Thomas Booth

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 September 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Dec 1872, 8:00 PM
06 Dec 1872, 8:00 PM
07 Dec 1872, 2:00 PM
07 Dec 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
As you like it
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  James William, Jr. Wallack;  Nelson J. [actor] Decker;  Adelaide Neilson
2)
"Under the greenwood tree"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Nelson J. [actor] Decker
3)
As you like it, "Blow, blow thou winter wind"
Composer(s): Arne
Participants:  Nelson J. [actor] Decker
4)
"What shall he have who killed the deer?"
aka What shall we have who killed the deer?
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 December 1872, 7.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 December 1872, 294.

"Nelson Decker was a creditable Amiens, and sang with pleasing effect.”