Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 January 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jul 1865, Evening

Program Details

“The Wallack-Davenport Combination.”

Black eyed Susan included the songs “Columbia, gem of the ocean,” and “Yankee ship and a Yankee crew,” as well as the Sailor’s hornpipe.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wallack-Davenport Combination;  Rose Eytinge;  James William, Jr. Wallack;  Edwin L. [actor] Davenport;  Miss E. [dancer] Everett
2)
Oliver Twist, [drama]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
Black-eyed Susan; or, All in the downs
aka Black eyed Susan
Text Author: Jerrold
4)
"Columbia, gem of the ocean"
aka Oh, Columbia, the gem of the ocean; Columbia, the land of the brave
Composer(s): Shaw
Text Author: Shaw
Participants:  Edwin L. [actor] Davenport
5)
"Yankee ship and a Yankee crew, A"
Composer(s): King [comp]
Text Author: Jones
Participants:  Edwin L. [actor] Davenport
6)
Sailor’s hornpipe
Participants:  Edwin L. [actor] Davenport

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 July 1865, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 July 1865, 7.

     “Mr. Davenport’s beautifully artistic performance of William has won for him undying fame.  In the course of the drama he will sing ‘Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,’ and ‘A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew,’ and dance a Sailor’s Hornpipe with Miss M. Everett.”