San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
15 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
16 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
17 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
18 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
19 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

"Ristori as my dear" is a spoof of actress Adelaide Ristori in Marie Antoinette.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Bobby Newcomb;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus
2)
How is it done?
aka How it is done; Great London illusion
3)
Grand Dutch cheese opera
aka Dutch cheese opera
4)
Ristori as My dear
aka Ristori's Medea
5)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Griffin)]
aka Hamlet the dainty; Hamlet in black
Text Author: Griffin
6)
"I feel so happy"

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 October 1867.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 October 1867, 222.

“Bobby Newcomb commences an engagement with the San Francisco Minstrels this evening, appearing in a song and dance. Bobby does a very neat act. . . . Nothwithstanding scarcely anything fresh in the way of new acts in the olio have been given by this company of late, they have been attracting pretty good houses.”