Shakespeare Jubilee: As You Like It

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Apr 1864, Evening

Program Details

Shakespeare: As You Like It - Includes “Cuckoo song” (Jones)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
As you like it
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Mrs. Francis Chanfrau (role: Audrey);  A. H. (Dolly) Davenport (role: Le Beau);  Humphrey Bland (role: Jacques);  Avonia Jones [actress] (role: Rosalind);  Mr. [Winter Garden] Barron (role: Orlando);  Mr. [Winter Garden] Lamb (role: Touchstone)
2)
"Cuckoo song"
Participants:  Avonia Jones [actress]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 April 1864, 7.
Avonia Jones as Rosalind, singing the original “Cuckoo Song.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 April 1864.

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 April 1864, 5.
“Miss Jones’s [sic] acting gains in value whenever she is sparing of her vocal resources.”