Budworth’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 April 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Nov 1866, Evening
27 Nov 1866, Evening
28 Nov 1866, Evening
29 Nov 1866, Evening
30 Nov 1866, Evening
01 Dec 1866, Evening
01 Dec 1866, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Budworth’s Minstrels; William S. Budworth; W. W. [minstrel] Hodgkins; John P. Hogan [minstrel]; Ruey Hughes

2)

Trip to the moon, A

aka Shadow; Society in 1974

3)

Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]

Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

Participants: William S. Budworth; W. W. [minstrel] Hodgkins

4)

"Echoes from fatherland"

aka Echoes from Vaterland

5)

Dancing on the brain

6)

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Herald, 26 November 1866, 8.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 November 1866.

3)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 November 1866, 7.

4)

Review: New York Herald, 29 November 1866, 5.

“It [A Trip to the Moon] is, without exception, the most comical and mirth provoking production that has been presented to a New York audience for many years.”

5)

Review: New York Clipper, 08 December 1866, 278.

Hughes and Hogan, twin steppers, were presented with clog shoes and belts on December 1 “by their up town friends. This was a well-deserved compliment, as they are capital dancers.”