The foresters
Contributors: Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916; Widmer, Henry, 1844 or 1845-1895; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900; Golden, John, 1874-1955, donor; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1892
Language: eng
Subjects: Robin Hood (Legendary character); Drama
Description: Brooklyn Academy of Music. Thirteenth annual visit to this city of Augustin Daly's Company of Cedians, from Daly's Theatre New York. Second annual engagement of Augustin Daly's Company of Comedians, from Daly's Theatre, New York. Mr. Daly will have the honor to present an entirely original poetic comedy in four acts by Lord Tennyson, entitled "The Foresters," for which new and original music for the ballads and choruses has been expressly composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan, and for which the new incidental music has  been composed by Henry Widmer, Esq. Every performance, as heretofore, under the personal direction of Mr. Augustin Daly.
Notes: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, week opening Monday, May 23, 1892, matinee Saturday only. Friday, May 27, 1892.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Mr. George Clarke, John Craig, John Drew, Charles Wheatleigh, Ralph Nisbet, Charles Leclercq, William Gilbert, Wilfred Buckland, Vinton Ayre, Herbert Gresham, William Sampson, Hobart Bosworth, Sidney Herbert, Lloyd Daubigny, George Wharnock, George Lesch, Misses Linthicum, Celeste, Eaton, Shotwell, Florence Conron, Lula Smith, Miss Miskel, Olive Barry, Miss Bryton, Miss Thebault, Misses Deacon, Marshall, Hall, Dossert, Kalisba, Miss Kitty Cheatham, Anna Cowell, Percy Haswell, Lula Smith, May Young, Miss Ada Rehan.

"For the week here, beginning Monday, May 23d, 1892, 'Love in Tandem,' Mr. Daly's last successful eccentric comedy, will be acted for that evening only, to be follwed on Tuesday evening by Mr. Daly's re-arrangement, in five acts, of Shakespere's comedy, 'Taming of the Shrew,' on Wednesday evening (only time), the four act comedy, by Augustin Daly, 'The Last Word.' Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday matinee, Lord Tennyson's poetic comedy 'The Foresters,' Saturday evening, farewell performance 'Nancy & Company'."

Includes portrait of Ada Rehan as Rosalind.

LC copy: Gift: Officers of John Golden, July 15, 1943.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).