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The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
The Archers
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| First Preview: | Total Previews: | ||
| Opening Date: | Apr 18, 1796 | ||
| Closing Date: | Apr 22, 1796 | Total Performances: | 3 |
Category: Musical, Drama, Original, Broadway
| Production Staff | |
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| Produced by Old American Company (Lewis Hallam & John Hodgkinson) | |
| Libretto by William Dunlap; Music by Benjamin Carr | |
| Scenic Design by Charles Ciceri | |
| Conducted by James Hewitt | |
| Cast |
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| Miss Brett | Female Archer | |
| Maiden of Uri | ||
| Miss Broadhurst | Rodolpha Walter Furst's daughter |
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| Mr. Cleveland | Gesler Austrian Governor of Uri |
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| Mr. Des Moulins | Burgher | |
| Mrs. Durang | Female Archer | |
| John Durang | Bowman of Uri | |
| Madame Gardie | Female Archer | |
| Maiden of Uri | ||
| Lewis Hallam | Werner Staffach | |
| Conrad Seller of wooden ware in Altdorf |
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| Miss Harding | Tell's Son | |
| John Hodgkinson | William Tell | |
| Mrs. John Hodgkinson | Cecily a basket woman |
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| Joseph Jefferson | Lieutenant to Gesler | |
| John Johnson | Walter Furst | |
| Mr. King | Leopold Duke of Austria |
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| Mr Lee | Bowman of Uri | |
| Mr. Leonard | Austrian Soldier | |
| Mr. McKnight | Austrian Soldier | |
| Charlotte Melmoth | Portia Tell's wife |
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| Mr. Munto | Pikeman of Schweitz | |
| W. H. Prigmore | Burgomaster of Altdorf | |
| Mr. Tomkins | Pikeman of Schweitz | |
| Miss Tompkins | Female Archer | |
| Joseph Tyler | Arnold Melcthal Chief of Underwalden |
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| Madame Val | Female Archer | |
| Maiden of Uri | ||
| Mr. Woolls | Burgher |
music by Benjamin Carr; lyrics by William Dunlap
| ACT 1 | |
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| We tell a tale of Liberty to-night | |
| Come who'll buy my baskets | Cecily (a basket woman) |
| Here are bowls by the dozen, and spoons by the gross | Conrad (Seller of wooden ware in Altdorf) |
| If a man would a faithful follower have | Conrad (Seller of wooden ware in Altdorf) |
| The soldiers are devilish kind | Lieutenant to Gesler, Conrad (Seller of wooden ware in Altdorf) and Cecily (a basket woman) |
| Forever lives the patriot's fame | William Tell |
| Genius of our pine-clad hills | Bowman of Uri and Chorus |
| Uri's sons, with open arms | Bowmen |
| To the war-horn's loud and solemn blast | Pikemen |
| March our bold yeomen dauntless to the field | Walter Furst |
| Why, Huntress, Why, (wilt thou thy life expose) | Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden) |
| At trumpet's clang, or the war-horn's sound | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter) |
| Let every act, let every thought | Chorus of the Whole |
| ACT 2 | |
| How happy is a soldier's life | Lieutenant to Gesler and Conrad (Seller of wooden ware in Altdorf) |
| While thus with mind infirm and limbs unnerved | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter) |
| Come, Conrad, awake from your trance | Cecily (a basket woman) |
| Come all ye pretty maidens | Cecily (a basket woman) |
| There lived in Altdorf city fair | Cecily (a basket woman) |
| While man, with high-wrought impious pride | Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden) |
| Dear is the homely cot, and dear the shed | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter), Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden), Bowman of Uri and Chorus of the Whole |
| ACT 3 | |
| Hark! from the mountain's awful head | Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden) |
| Haste, my Maidens, haste with me! | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter) |
| He comes! he comes! the victor comes! | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter), Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden) and Chorus of the Whole |
| In storied page where shall we find | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter) and Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden) |
| Good mistress, kind lady, my thanks receive | Cecily (a basket woman) |
| Come, my maidens, haste away! | Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter), Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden) and Cecily (a basket woman) |
| When heaven pours blessings all around | William Tell, Arnold Melcthal (Chief of Underwalden), Rodolpha (Walter Furst's daughter), Cecily (a basket woman) and Chorus of the Whole |