Arrah-na-Pogue

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
22 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
23 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
24 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
25 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
26 Dec 1874, 2:00 PM
26 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  J. H. Vinson
2)
Arrah-na-pogue; or, The Wicklow wedding
aka Wicklow wedding; Arrah na pogue; Arrah of the kiss
Text Author: Boucicault, House [composer-dramatist]
3)
Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp, [drama]
Text Author: Farley

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 December 1874, 11.

Complimentary benefit to Joe Corbin on Thursday evening.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 22 December 1874, 7.

Brief; no mention of music.

3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 24 December 1874, 8.

Explains that on 12/23/74 the theater was “again the subject of special police attention.” The police marched onto the stage with a warrant from Judge Sutherland and “arrested twelve women who had just been dancing the can-can.” Chaos ensued as the women tried to escape, but all were caught and spent the night at the jail on Prince Street. 

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 January 1875, 318.

Aladdin added to the performance for Friday and Saturday evenings only.