Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
Price: $1; $.50 amphitheatre
Event Type:
Band, Variety / Vaudeville
Performance Forces:
Instrumental
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
27 July 2015
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
12 Apr 1865, 1:00 PM
Program Details
The “entire companies of†Wallack’s Theatre, Winter Garden, New Bowery Theatre, Barnum’s Museum, Dobson Brothers, Hooley’s Minstrels (N.Y.), Hooley’s Minstrels (Brooklyn), Olympic Theatre, Niblo’s Theatre, Old Bowery Theatre, Broadway Theatre, and Park Theatre participated in the concert. Theodore Moss also volunteered, but in what capacity it is unknown.
Following The Day after the Wedding, Hooley’s Minstrels performed a two-part program; the first part by Hooley’s Minstrels N.Y., the second part by Hooley’s Minstrels Brooklyn. J. W. Hilton, Cool Burgess, T. B. Prendergast, W. S. Budworth, Louis Nevers, and Griffin are all members of Hooley’s Minstrels. N. B. Clarke was stage manager for the event.
Performers and/or Works Performed
4)
aka Wife's first lesson ;
Wife's lesson
6)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
aka My good old friends
Composer(s): Winner
10)
aka When I used to work
Composer(s): Warden [composer]
14)
aka Barbary Allen;
Barb'ry Allen;
Barbara Ellen
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 April 1865.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 April 1865.
List of performers. “The committee feel proud to call the attention of the public to the fact that the managers and artists of every place of amusement in the city, without exception, have generously volunteered their services for the occasion.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 April 1865.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 12 April 1865, 5.