Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
T. [proprietor] Condon

Manager / Director:
George W. Howard Griffin

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 May 1867, 8:00 PM
21 May 1867, 8:00 PM
22 May 1867, 2:30 PM
22 May 1867, 8:00 PM
23 May 1867, 8:00 PM
24 May 1867, 8:00 PM
25 May 1867, 2:30 PM
25 May 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

George Christy Benefit on 05/22/67.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels;  Ruey Hughes;  [minstrel] Morgan
2)
Too late for the train
3)
Upper ten thousand, The
4)
Imperial black Japs, The
aka Japanese jugglers; Wonderful Japanese troupe
5)
Columbia polka
6)
"Hop light loo"
aka It was down in Carolina

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 May 1867, 7.

Grand testimonial to George Christy, Wed. afternoon, May 22.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 May 1867, 7.

Grand testimonial to George Christy, Wed afternoon, May 22.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 May 1867, 55.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 June 1867, 62, 1st col., bottom.

Brief: “The ‘Black Japs’ make a great deal of merriment for the patrons of Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels, and those who need a little shaking up after a diversified and unctuous dinner should visit the Fifth Avenue Opera House while this funny act is on.  A lesson too, may be learned by bashful lovers, if they will but give heed to the doings of the ‘Statue Lovers,’ as exhibited at this hall.”