Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 February 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
05 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM
07 Jul 1866, 8:00 PM

Program Details

[Amherst:] Ireland as it was [drama]
Includes “Paddy’s the boy,” song
Irish reel
W. R. Floyd: Handy Andy [drama] Bryant (as Handy Andy); Cooke (as Conah Rooney)
Includes [Bryant:] “Finnigan’s wake,” song
Irish jig
Song, unidentified (Cooke)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Charles [actor] Fisher;  Rosa Cooke [soprano];  Mrs. James William Wallack
2)
Ireland as it was, [drama]
Text Author: Amherst
3)
"Paddy’s the boy"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
4)
Irish reel
5)
Handy Andy, [drama]
Text Author: Floyd
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Handy Andy);  Rosa Cooke [soprano] (role: Conah Rooney)
6)
"Finnigan’s wake"
aka Tim Finnigan's wake; Finigan's wake
Composer(s): Bryant
7)
Irish jig
aka Wild Irish jig
8)
Song, unidentified
aka New song
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Rosa Cooke [soprano]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 02 July 1866.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 July 1866, 8.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1866, 7.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 04 July 1866.
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 04 July 1866, 5.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 July 1866, 7.
7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 05 July 1866, 4.
8)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 July 1866.