Arrah-na-Pogue

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Manager / Director:
William Wheatley

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
12 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
13 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
14 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
15 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
16 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Boucicault: Arrah-na-pogue; or, The Wicklow wedding
Music by W. C. Levey
Includes: “The wearin’ o’ the green” (song)


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]
Participants:  Thomas H. Glenney (role: Shaun, the Post);  Josephine Orton (role: Arrah Meelish)
2)
Arrah-na-pogue; or, The Wicklow wedding, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Levey
3)
"Wearin' o' the green, The"
aka Wearing of the green
Text Author: Boucicault, House [composer-dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 11 September 1865.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 September 1865.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 September 1865, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New York Post, 11 September 1865.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 September 1865.
6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 16 September 1865, 182.
7)
Article: New York Post, 25 September 1865, 1.

“The new edition of the admired song ‘The Wearin’ o’ the Green,’ just published by Dodworth, at No.6 Astor Place, is illustrated with a frontispiece which is really a work of merit seldom surpassed in the lithographic art.  It is a full-length portrait of Mr. Glenny as Shaun in ‘Arrah-na-Pogue,’ with an appropriate background of Irish landscape.”