Charley White’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 March 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Nov 1866, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Charley White Company; Charley White Company, corps de ballet; W. B. Cavanaugh; Charley White; Josh Hart [actor, minstrel]; Eva Brent; Frank Kerns; George R. Edeson; Laura le [dancer] Claire

2)

Petticoat light guard march

Composer(s): Unknown composer

3)

Longbone will preach

4)

Spirit of seventy-six is visible, The, [burlesque]

aka Spirit of '76

5)

Blackberry’s brigade

aka Blackberry's brigade reviewed

6)

Washington crossing the Delaware

7)

Participants: George R. Edeson

8)

Hannah and her big drum

aka Hannah goes to war

9)

Cicilienne, La

10)

Female clerks of Washington; or, Early’s last raid

Text Author: Cavanaugh

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 November 1866.