New Bowery Theatre: Workingmen’s Union Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Bowery Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
James W. Lingard

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 April 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Apr 1866, Evening

Program Details

The cast included members from Bryants' Minstrels and Tony Pastor's Company, as well as performers from the New Bowery Theatre.
The Rent day was performed by members of the New Bowery Theatre.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Tony Pastor’s Company;  Bryants' Minstrels;  T. J. Nolan;  George Clifton Dobson
2)
Rent day, The, minstrel parody
3)
Scientific solo, banjo
Participants:  George Clifton Dobson
4)
Irish jig
aka Wild Irish jig
Participants:  T. J. Nolan
5)
Olio

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 April 1866, 7.

     “Benefit in aid of the funds of the workingmen’s union, on which occasion a grand array of talented artists have kindly volunteered their services.”

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 April 1866, 8.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 April 1866, 415.