Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
11 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
12 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
13 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
14 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

John Brougham's The duke’s motto (drama) includes “Wine, bright wine” (song) and “While there’s life there’s hope” (song).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Niblo's Garden, corps de ballet;  John Collins [actor] (role: Carrickfergus)
2)
Duke's motto, The; or, I am here!, [Play in 4 acts]
aka I am all here to-night
Text Author: Brougham
3)
Wine, bright wine
Composer(s): Brougham
Participants:  John Collins [actor]
4)
"While there's life there's hope"
Composer(s): Dodworth
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  John Collins [actor]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Post, 10 August 1863.

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 10 August 1863, 7.

“‘The Duke’s Motto’ . . . has now achieved its sixtieth night at Niblo’s.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 August 1863, 7.

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 10 August 1863, 4.

Notes on Wheatley’s fall season.  Mentions Mr. & Mrs. Barney Williams and Vestvali.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 August 1863, 7.

“SIXTY-FIRST NIGHT . . . DELIGHTFUL MUSIC, under the direction of H.B. DODWORTH.”

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 August 1863, 7.

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 August 1863, 7.

8)
Review: New York Herald, 17 August 1863, 5.

“Despite the high state of the temperature the past week . . . [Niblo’s was] crowded every evening.”