Duke’s Motto

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)

17 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
18 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
19 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
20 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
21 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
22 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

2)
aka I am all here to-night
Text Author: Brougham
3)
Composer(s): Brougham
Participants:  John Collins [actor]
4)
Composer(s): Dodworth
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  John Collins [actor]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 August 1863, 5.

“‘The Duke’s Motto’ attracts good audiences, as it deserves to do, being by all odds the best constructed and best acted play now before the public.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 August 1863, 7.

“LAST WEEK BUT ONE . . . MUSIC, under the direction of Harvey B. Dodworth.”

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 17 August 1863, 5.

“‘The Duke’s Motto,’ with its magnificent scenery, costumes, music, dancing and mechanical effects, still draws immense houses at Niblo’s Garden, and the first sign of an abatement in the public interest has not yet manifested itself.  We learn, however, that Mr. Wheatley . . . will be obliged, notwithstanding the wonderful popularity of the piece, to withdraw it. . . . These, therefore, are the concluding nights.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 August 1863, 7.

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 17 August 1863, 3.

6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 22 August 1863, 150.

“The press and public pronounce the Acting Perfect, Scenery unsurpassed, Costumes elegant, Mechanical Effects wonderful, Furniture splendid, Music, under the direction of HARVEY B. DODWORTH, excellent, and the GRAND BALLET, the best in the country.”

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 August 1863, 7.

8)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 August 1863, 7.

9)
Announcement: New York Post, 22 August 1863, 2.