Connie Soogah

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 June 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 May 1864, 7:45 PM
03 May 1864, 7:45 PM
04 May 1864, 7:45 PM
05 May 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Charles Gayler: Connie Soogah, The; or, The Jolly Pedlar Irish Drama with Songs
Includes the songs: [Barker]: “Ellen Astore” and [Dibdin]: “Irish Wedding” (Mr. Williams)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Connie Soogah, The; or, The jolly pedlar, [Irish drama]
aka Wearing of the green
Text Author: Gayler
Participants:  Maria [Mrs. Barney] Williams (role: Nelly Nolan, the Jumping Jewel);  Barney Williams (role: Corney McGrath)
2)
"Ellen Astore"
Composer(s): Barker
Text Author: Crawford
Participants:  Barney Williams
3)
"Irish wedding, The"
aka General election. Irish wedding
Composer(s): Dibdin
Text Author: Dibdin
Participants:  Barney Williams

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 April 1864, 22.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 May 1864.
“MAGNIFICENT EFFECTS, APPOINTMENTS, MUSIC.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Post, 02 May 1864.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 May 1864, 4.
“Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have resumed their season of Irish drama at Niblo’s. It was interrupted, it will be remembered, by the indisposition of Mr. Williams. The gentleman is now in excellent condition.”
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 May 1864, 7.
“MR. BARNEY WILLIAMS in his original character of CORNEY McGRATH, with the songs of ‘Ellen Astore’ and the ‘Irish Wedding.’”
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 May 1864, 7.
“Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams in numerous characters, songs and dances.”
7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 07 May 1864, 30.

8)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 May 1864, 32.