Wallack’s Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 February 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Jul 1864, 8:00 PM
27 Jul 1864, 8:00 PM
28 Jul 1864, 8:00 PM
29 Jul 1864, 8:00 PM
30 Jul 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

W. R. Floyd (adaptation): Handy Andy [drama] includes the song “Lanigan’s Ball” and Irish jig, unidentified.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke;  A. H. (Dolly) Davenport;  Mrs. William Rudolph [actress] Floyd;  William Rudolph Floyd
2)
Handy Andy, [drama]
Text Author: Floyd
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke;  A. H. (Dolly) Davenport;  William Rudolph Floyd
3)
"Lanigan's ball"
aka Lanagan's ball; Lannergan's ball; Lannigan's ball; Lynagan’s Ball
Composer(s): Bryant, Glover
Text Author: Pastor
Participants:  Dan Bryant
4)
Irish jig
aka Wild Irish jig
Participants:  Dan Bryant
5)
Temptation; or, The Irish emigrant
aka Irish immigrant; Tim O'Brien; or, The Irish emigrant
Text Author: Brougham

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 July 1864, 7.

      “Dan Bryant will appear in a series of Irish Characters.”

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

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 July 1864, 5.

      “The gentleman is regarded as one of the best Irishmen now on stage.”

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 July 1864, 5.

      “Dan Bryant commences on Tuesday in white Irish parts.  His renown as a minstrel in burnt cork will doubtless bring spectators and greenbacks in abundance to his new field of action.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 July 1864.

6)
Review: New-York Times, 27 July 1864, 4.

      No mention of music.  The review focuses on Bryant’s dramatic ability, especially his sense of humor.  “[O]ne of the largest audiences we have ever seen within the walls of this popular establishment.  Mr. Bryant is already so great a favorite in another sphere of art, that the audience, reinforced with the lieges thus obtained, was kindly not only to the gentleman himself, but to all his surroundings.

      We have many Irishmen on the stage, and the best are those who in their impersonations mark certain peculiarities of character in the Hibernian mode of doing and saying things.  Mr. Bryant unquestionably brings a fresh stock of manner and ‘business’ to Irish parts. . . . Mr. Bryant’s success was indeed unmistakable and deserved.”

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 July 1864, 7.

      Last night of the two plays.  Performers.

8)
Review: New-York Times, 01 August 1864, 4.

      “Dan Bryant’s success has more than justified the best expectations of his admirers.  Wallack’s Theater has been crowded to its greatest capacity every night since the gentleman’s début.”

9)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 03 September 1864, 166.

      “There is no truth in the report that Lester Wallack intends to take Dan Bryant’s place on the end with Bryants’ Minstrels, to give tone to the minstrel stage, as Mr. Bryant has done for the legitimate boards.  We are authorized to give that statement an unauthorized denial; therefore we pronounce it an unmitigated fabrication.”

COMMENT: We don’t have the NYC City Summary from 09/10/1867, so any reviews from that date are missing