San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Mar 1867, 7:45 PM
19 Mar 1867, 7:45 PM
20 Mar 1867, 7:45 PM
21 Mar 1867, 7:45 PM
22 Mar 1867, 7:45 PM
23 Mar 1867, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: San Francisco Minstrels; African ballet troupe; Billy Birch [minstrel]; David S. Wambold; William H. [minstrel] Bernard; Charley Backus

2)

Two Barnums of Connecticut, The

3)

Our family sociable

4)

Africaine, L’; or, Camrinus's opera of lager beer, [burlesque]

aka Gambrino's opera of lager beer; Gambrinus's opera of lager beer

5)

Shadow pantomime

6)

Black cook, The, [COOK--no R; this is the ballet, not the play at Niblo's!]

aka Greasy black cook; Screaming black cook, The; Screaming black crook; Little crooks

Participants: African ballet troupe

7)

Grand march of the spirit hashers of the Amazon

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 March 1867.

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 23 March 1867, 398.

“‘The Black Crook’ burlesque and the ‘Shadow Pantomime’ have been such good cards that the managers are loth [sic] to take them off.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 23 March 1867, 399.

“New and Cheerful Burlesques Every Week.”

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867, 406.

“The San Francisco Minstrels continue to do splendid business, the house being well filled every night. This is owing to the downright excellence of their music, vocal and instrumental, the wit and humor of their colloquial interludes and the mirth-provoking extravagance of their burlesques. It is worth going far to hear Wambold in any of his ballads, and the witticisms of Birch and Backus, as well as the quick retorts of Bernard. The ‘Black Cook’ keeps the bills. Last week an Amazonian March was introduced in the burlesque, and it just made about as much fun as anything on the bill.”