Griffin & Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Manager / Director:
George W. Howard Griffin

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 March 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
26 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
27 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
28 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
29 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
30 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels;  Biglimb Ballet Troupe;  George N. Christy;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor];  John T. Boyce [minstrel];  Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck
2)
Black crook, The, [burlesque]
3)
"Hunkee doree"
aka Hunkey doree
Composer(s): Unknown composer
4)
"Hop light loo"
aka It was down in Carolina
5)
Bond robbery; or, The skeleton witness
6)
Fowler on heads
7)
"Dublin Bay; or, The wreck of the emigrant ship"
Composer(s): Barker
Participants:  Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck
8)
"Cat in the corner, The"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  John T. Boyce [minstrel]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 March 1867.

Fifth week of The Black Crook. “Beautiful Singing and Dancing.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 March 1867.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 28 March 1867, 7.

“Amusements. Griffin & Christy’s Minstrels. The Fifth Avenue Opera House was crowded last night by a highly respectable audience, which manifested its appreciation of the select and diversified programme of songs, ballads and burlesque interludes, by repeated and hearty outbursts of applause. The songs of ‘Dublin Bay,’ by C. F. Shattuck, and ‘Cat in the Corner,’ by J. T. Boyce, were deservedly encored, and the poses fantastiques of the Biglimb Ballet Troupe, in the Black Crook burlesque, elicited shouts of laughter.”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867, 406.

“C. Henry is a sweet singer and a great favorite.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867, 407.

Fifth week of Black Crook. “The Great Quartet in New Ballads and Choruses.”