Grand Dramatic Entertainment

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
John P. Cooke [cond.-comp.-vocal]

Price: $.75; .30 amphitheatre; $1 reserved seats in parquet and circle; $5, $8 and $10 private boxes; $12 proscenium boxes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 September 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details

W. R. Floyd (adaptation): Handy Andy [drama] (Bryant as Handy Andy; )
Includes: [Bryant; Glover:] “Lanigan’s ball,” song (Bryant)
Irish jig, unidentified (Bryant)

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Text Author: Floyd
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Handy Andy)
4)
aka Lanagan's ball; Lannergan's ball; Lannigan's ball; Lynagan’s Ball
Composer(s): Bryant, Glover
Text Author: Pastor
Participants:  Dan Bryant
5)
aka Wild Irish jig
Participants:  Dan Bryant

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 November 1864.
“There will be an agreeable holiday performance at the Academy of Music on Thanksgiving night. Mr. Dan Bryant is the star of the occasion, and will appear in Irish comedy. The performance will be under the direction of Mr. Moss, of Wallack’s Theatre.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 November 1864, 7.
 “Performers by permission of J.W. Wallack, esq.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 November 1864.
Full cast list.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 November 1864.