Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Griffin and Christy’s Opera House

Price: $.30, .50 reserved

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 May 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
13 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
14 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
16 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
17 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels;  George N. Christy;  Otto Burbank

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 August 1867, 2.
2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 17 August 1867, 151.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 August 1867, 154, 2d col., middle.

“Messrs. Griffin and Christy have reduced the prices of admission to their minstrel hall, to 50 and 30 cents.  The change seems to have proved a good one, for their hall, notwithstanding the bad weather, was well attended the past week.  Mr. Percival has become quite a favorite with the audience, and deservedly so, for he possesses a sweet tenor voice.  George Christy, on the end, is as happy as any ‘moke’ could be, for he nightly convulses his brethren and sisters with lafter [sic].”