Ben Cotton and Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 May 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Aug 1867, Evening
13 Aug 1867, Evening
14 Aug 1867, Evening
15 Aug 1867, Evening
16 Aug 1867, Evening
17 Aug 1867, Evening

Program Details

2nd week.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ben Cotton and Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels;  J. H. [tenor] Murphy
2)
"Mickey’s gone away"
aka Mickey is gone away
3)
Skating carnival, The
4)
"Petroleum Sam"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
Soger's return, The, [burlesque]
aka Soldier's return
6)
Senegambian gambols
7)
Gift fakir, The
8)
Circus Africanus
9)
Lilliputian pugilists

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 August 1867, 3.

“First appearance of the popular tenor Mr. J. H. Murphy”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 August 1867, 3.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 17 August 1867, 151.