Theater program for "As You Like It" at Daly's Theatre, December 27, 1889
Contributors: Widmer, Henry, 1844 or 1845-1895, conductor; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Daly's Theatre (New York, N.Y. : 30th Street); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [Publisher not identified]
Published: 1889
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Other titles: As you like it; Daly's Theatre bill of the play
Description: Daly's Theatre bill of the play. This evening, Friday, December 27, 1889, and every evening until further notice wil be acted the comedy in five acts, by William Shakspere, entitled "As You Like it" which will be presented, after many months of exacting preparation, with novel scenic embellishments by M. Amable of Paris, by Henry E. Hoyt, Esq., by Goatcher & Young, and Mr. James Roberts. The costumes after original designs by M. Bianchini of the Grand Opera, Paris, and E. Hamilton Bell, Esq. made expressly for this production by Messrs. Arnold & Constable. The intricate and ingenious mechanical effects by Mr. James Tait, the illuminations by gas and electricity in charge of Mr. John Welch, and the accessories by Bernard Schuster. Original incidental music and the harmonious arrangement of fmailiar Shaksperian and early English melodies by Henry Widmer, Esq., and a cast of surpassing interest. The whole produced under the immediate direction of Mr. Augustin Daly.
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

Cast: Mr. Charles Wheatleigh, Mr. George Middleton, Mr. Henry Koeke, Mr. Frederick Bond, Mr. William Hamilton, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Hobart Bosworth, Mr. Eugene Ormond, Mr. James Wallis, Mr. John Drew, Mr. Charles Fisher, Mr. Richard Knowles, Mr. James Lewis, Mr. Charles Leclercq, Mr. Bosworth, Mr. Edward Wilks, Miss Florence Conron, Miss Louise Smith, Miss Helen Bryant, Miss Neilson, Miss Kitty Cheatham, Miss Ada Rehan, Miss Henrietta Crosman, Miss Jean Gordon, Miss Isabel Irving.

Printed on both sides. Pages from a larger program.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: 1. Overture "Shaksperean Songs" / Bishop; title: 2. Violin Solo "Happy be thy Dreams" / Thomas, Mr. Louis Schmidt; title: 3. Lo! Here the gentle lark / Bishop; title: 4. Dream visions (Fantasia) / Lumbye.