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:
1 October 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
26 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
27 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
28 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
29 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
30 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details

The cast included other actors.

"Connie Soogah" includes the songs “Ellen Astore” and “The Irish wedding.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Wearing of the green
Text Author: Gayler
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams (role: Nelly Nolan);  Barney Williams (role: Connie Soogah)
3)
Composer(s): Dodworth
4)
Composer(s): Barker
Text Author: Crawford
Participants:  Barney Williams
5)
aka General election. Irish wedding
Composer(s): Dibdin
Text Author: Dibdin
Participants:  Barney Williams

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1864, 3.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 25 January 1864, 2.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 January 1864, 4.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 January 1864, 7.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864.
“The New overture and Original Music, by H.B. Dodworth, Have received the strongest encomiums of the entire Press.”
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 January 1864, 7.

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 06 February 1864, 339.
“Stalls, and private boxes, and circles, and every other part of Niblo’s are crowded nightly. . . . Mrs. Williams has a great part in the new play.”