Shamus O’Brien

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 April 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
14 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
16 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
17 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM
18 Aug 1866, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Shamus O’Brien included the songs “Green above the red,” and “Ruction jig.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Shamus O’Brien; or, The bould boy of Glencall, [Irish drama]
aka Shamus O'Brien; or, The bould boy of Glengall
Text Author: McDonough, Maeder
Participants:  Dan Bryant
2)
"Green above the red"
Composer(s): Leverich
3)
"Ruction jig"
Composer(s): Brougham

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Post, 13 August 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1866.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 13 August 1866, 4.

     “Mr. Bryant has greatly improved the rôle of Shamus by cutting its musical requirements and reducing such efforts to the modest song of the ‘Green Above the Red.’ We know of no piece in which Mr. Bryant appears to such signal advantage as this. He is only a little too quiet, perhaps, in his delineation of the bould boy of the Emerald Isle; but as a whole the part is well conceived and admirably interpreted.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 August 1866.
5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 August 1866, 150.
6)
Review: New York Clipper, 25 August 1866, 158.

     “The new song of ‘Green Above the Red’ has become nearly as popular as ‘Old Dog Tray,’ for we hear many a boot black as he polishes away, humming it, while others, more bold, whistle away at it with a will.”