Weber and Fields Music Hall

Weber and Fields Music Hall The forerunner of the Weber and Fields shows was the burlesque of Harrigan and Hart, who had their own theaters—first the Theatre Comique and later the Park Theatre—in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as the services of their own composer, Dave Braham. Their songs were Irish, and so were their audiences. New York then had the largest Irish population in the world. By the time Weber and Fields got their own theater, in 1896, Coon Songs were coming into their own, and John…