Connie Soogah
Event Information
Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden
Proprietor / Lessee:
William Wheatley
Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
Price: $.50 dress circle and parquet; .75 dress circle reserved; .25 family circle; $1 orchestra stalls; $7 private boxes
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
14 April 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
18 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM19 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
20 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
21 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
22 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
23 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
Program Details
The cast included other actors.
Charles Gayler: Connie Soogah, The; or, jolly peddler, The (Irish drama written expressly for Mr. & Mrs. Williams) (Mr. W as Connie Soogah, Mrs. W as Nelly Nolan)
Includes the songs:
“Ellen Astore” (Mr. Williams)
“Irish wedding, The” (Mr. Williams)
Charles Gayler: Connie Soogah, The; or, jolly peddler, The (Irish drama written expressly for Mr. & Mrs. Williams) (Mr. W as Connie Soogah, Mrs. W as Nelly Nolan)
Includes the songs:
“Ellen Astore” (Mr. Williams)
“Irish wedding, The” (Mr. Williams)
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Wearing of the green
Participants: Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams (role: Nelly Nolan); Barney Williams (role: Connie Soogah)
Citations
1)
“‘Connie Soogah’ . . . will be continued until further notice.”
2)
Cast, etc. “Original and characteristic music by H.B. Dodworth.”
5)
“Original and characteristic Music, by H.B. Dodworth.”
7)
“[L]ast week the house was packed almost every night. . . . The quarrelsome critics may declaim against the new drama as much as they like, but as the public acknowledge its merits by flocking to the theatre to see it, the labor of the critics to run it down is just so much lost time.”