Belle Lamar

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Manager / Director:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Conductor(s):
Michael [conductor] Connolly

Price: $1; $.50 dress circle; $.30 gallery

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Aug 1874, Evening
11 Aug 1874, Evening
12 Aug 1874, Evening
13 Aug 1874, Evening
14 Aug 1874, Evening
15 Aug 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Belle Lamar, [play with music]
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  John [actor] McCullough;  Catherine [actress] Rogers
2)
Belle Lamar, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Connolly
3)
Giroflé-Girofla, selections
aka Girofle Girofla
Composer(s): Lecocq

Citations

1)
Article: New-York Times, 26 July 1874, 5.

Forthcoming season. 

2)
Article: New York Herald, 03 August 1874, 4.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 04 August 1874, 7.

Cast listing. 

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 06 August 1874, 5.

“Beyond the regular characters in ‘Belle Lamar’ at Booth’s Theatre Mr. Maurice Pike and other vocalists will appear as sentinels and camp men and sing several war songs of the rebellion times….” 

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 August 1874, 150.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 August 1874, 7.
7)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 11 August 1874, 4.

No mention of music. 

8)
Review: New-York Times, 11 August 1874, 5.

No mention of music. 

9)
Review: New York Post, 11 August 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

10)
Review: New York Herald, 11 August 1874, 7.

“…A solitary Irish recruit, in the national uniform, is discovered on the stage, pacing slowly on his outpost duty. He sings to himself, ‘Why did I leave the county Clare to sail across the sea?’ The last notes have scarcely died away when the voice of the rebel sentinel on the further shore of the river is heard singing to himself, ‘Maryland, my Maryland.’ The effect of these effusions of the heart to the distant home is a masterly touch of the dramatist; it starts the action of the piece and strikes the keynote of its sentiment with as much poetic feeling as ingenuity…”

11)
Review: New York Sun, 12 August 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

12)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 August 1874, 166.

“…During the evening the orchestra performed an overture, ‘Belle Lamar,’ composed by Michael Connolly, and selections from ‘Girofle, Girofla,’ ‘La Jolie Parfumeuse,’ and ‘Gems of Ireland…”; cast listing.