Colleen Bawn
Event Information
Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
21 October 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
15 Aug 1864, 7:30 PM16 Aug 1864, 7:30 PM
18 Aug 1864, 7:30 PM
Program Details
Boucicault: Colleen Bawn [or, The brides of Gaarryowen]
Includes the song by Boucicault & Balfe [i.e. Benedict]: “The Colleen Bawn” [from The Lily of Killarney] (Bryant)
Includes the song by Boucicault & Balfe [i.e. Benedict]: “The Colleen Bawn” [from The Lily of Killarney] (Bryant)
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Brides of Garryowen;
Paddy Murphy
Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Myles NaCaoppaleen); Ione [vocal/actor] Burke (role: Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn)
Citations
1)
“Mr. Dan Bryant will play another week at Wallack’s, producing ‘The White Horse of the Peppers.’ He will be followed, on the 22nd of August, by Miss Olive Logan.”
COMMENT: The White Horse of the Peppers, by Samuel Lover, was apparently never performed. Another play by Lover, Rory More, was performed at Bryant’s benefit on August 20, 1864.
2)
“’The Colleen Bawn,” words by Boucicault, music by Balfe [i.e. Benedict], never before sung in America.”
4)
“To-night the ‘Colleen Bawn’ is the attraction, Dan Bryant introducing therein a new song of the same name, the words by Boucicault and the music by Balfe [i.e. Benedict].”