Arrah-na-Pogue

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
William Wheatley

Manager / Director:
William Wheatley

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
22 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
23 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
24 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
25 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
26 Aug 1865, Matinee
26 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Arrah-na-pogue; or, The Wicklow wedding
aka Wicklow wedding; Arrah na pogue; Arrah of the kiss
Text Author: Boucicault, House [composer-dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 August 1865, 7.

“Thirty-Seventh Representation.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 August 1865.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 26 August 1865, 158.

“[I]t continues to crowd the theatre every night, and on Saturday afternoon as well.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 September 1865, 166.

Music not mentioned.  “Manager Wheatley has certainly enjoyed an almost uninterrupted series of successes ever since he assumed the managerial direction at Niblo’s.”