Colleen Bawn

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 October 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Aug 1864, Evening
09 Aug 1864, Evening

Program Details

Boucicault: Colleen Bawn, The; or, The brides of Garryowen
Includes the songs: “Pretty girl milking her cow, The” and “Cruiskeen [Cruskeen] lawn, The,” both sung by Burke


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Brides of Garryowen; Paddy Murphy
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Myles Na Coppaleen);  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke
2)
aka Valley lay smiling before me, The; Pretty girl milking her cow, A
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke
3)
aka Cruskeen lawn; Darby Maguire
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 August 1864.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 August 1864, 4.

“Bryant’s engagement has been prolonged at Wallack’s for another week.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 08 August 1864.

Bryant’s characterization is the best “since the days of the lamented Tyrone Power.”