Playing with Fire

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Conductor(s):
Robert August Stoepel

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Oct 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Playing with fire
Includes Bob-o-link polka


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Playing with fire
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  John Brougham
2)
Bob-o-link polka
aka Bob o link polka
Composer(s): Brougham

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 October 1865.
2)
Advertisement: New York Post, 30 October 1865.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 October 1865.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 October 1865.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 31 October 1865, 6.

Music not mentioned.

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 11 November 1865, 246.

1st col., bottom-2d col., top: “And then he [Brougham] withdrew [following his remarks at the close of the comedy], and the people withdrew, and the next night the orchestra withdrew, and John Brougham played without them, for there is music enough in his own voice to entertain the patrons of the house far better than the fiddlers can entertain them. And that’s how John Brougham was welcomed home.”