Benefit of Mr. Young

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Apr 1864, Evening

Program Details

Two plays with song.

Bishop, Buckstone: Rural Felicity - Includes the song: J. Augustine Wade: “Meet me by Moonlight”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lester Wallack;  Madeline Henriques;  Clara Jennings
2)
American in Paris; or, A game of dominoes, [comedy]
aka Americans in Paris
Text Author: Hurlbert
3)
Rural felicity
Composer(s): Bishop
Text Author: Buckstone
4)
"Meet me by moonlight"
Composer(s): Wade
Text Author: Wade
Participants:  Madeline Henriques;  Clara Jennings

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 April 1864, 2.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 April 1864.
Cast.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 April 1864, 7.
AD: NYT 04/15/64 p. 7 – “In the course of the piece, Miss Henriques and Mrs. Jennings will sing the favorite duet, ‘Meet me by Moonlight.’