Ben Cotton and Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Sep 1867, Evening
17 Sep 1867, Evening
18 Sep 1867, Evening
19 Sep 1867, Evening
20 Sep 1867, Evening
21 Sep 1867, Evening
21 Sep 1867, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ben Cotton and Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels;  Leon Brothers;  Samuel M. Sharpley;  Ida DeVere;  D. L. Morris;  Eva Brent;  Frank [acter, singer] Lacy;  Ben Cotton;  Alfred [buffo comique] Prince;  Annie [clog dancer] Gibbons;  Charley White;  Florence (La Petite) Reynolds [soprano]
2)
Richard III, [burlesque]
aka Richard No. 3 ; Teutonic tyrant of squantum; Richard Ye No. 3; Richard Third; Richard de three times; Dutch Richard III
Participants:  D. L. Morris
3)
Policy shop
aka Policy players
Participants:  Charley White

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 September 1867.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 September 1867, 190.

Says Alfred Prince is from Sweden.

 

3)
Review: New York Herald, 22 September 1867, 7.

“At the Theatre Comique Charley White, Sam Sharpley and Ben Cotton give a bewildering variety programme, in which gymnasts, ballet dancers, Ethiopian representatives and a dozen other incongruous individuals appear.”