Colleen Bawn

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Aug 1865, Evening
15 Aug 1865, Evening
16 Aug 1865, Evening
17 Aug 1865, Evening
18 Aug 1865, Evening
19 Aug 1865, Evening

Program Details

Boucicault: The Colleen Bawn; or, The brides of Garryowen
Includes:
“The Lads that [who] live in Ireland” – song
“Limerick is beautiful” – song
Macgillicuddy’s jig – dance
The Cruiskeen [Cruskeen] lawn
The Pretty girl milking her cow


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Colleen Bawn; or, The brides of Garryowen
aka Brides of Garryowen; Paddy Murphy
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Myles-na-Coppaleen);  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke (role: Eily O’Connor)
2)
"Lads who live in Ireland, The"
aka Lads that live in Ireland
Composer(s): Seymour
Participants:  Dan Bryant
3)
Lily of Killarney, The, "Limerick is beautiful"
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Dan Bryant
4)
"Macgillicuddy’s jig"
Participants:  Dan Bryant
5)
"Cruiskeen lawn"
aka Cruskeen lawn; Darby Maguire
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke
6)
"Pretty girl milking her cow, The"
aka Valley lay smiling before me, The; Pretty girl milking her cow, A
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 August 1865, 4.

Bryant gives “his idea of what a quiet Irishman is when tinged with a shade of Afric’s heel and toe.”  The audience members “seem to care nothing for anybody nor anything but Daniel.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 August 1865, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 August 1865, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 19 August 1865, 151.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 August 1865, 158.

Bryant played to “very full houses.”