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Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Conductor(s):
John P. Cooke [cond.-comp.-vocal]
Price: $.50
Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
9 September 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 Oct 1862, 1:00 PMProgram Details
Other perfomers, including additional actors from New Bowery Theatre.
Order of program:
As Cool as a Cucumber
Wood’s Minstrels
The Loan of a Lover
The Rough Diamond
See also the evening performance.
Order of program:
As Cool as a Cucumber
Wood’s Minstrels
The Loan of a Lover
The Rough Diamond
See also the evening performance.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; Fanny Denham; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; Mrs. Cool White; P. B. Isaacs; J. Leis; Eph Horn; M. Lewis [minstrel]; Charley [minstrel] Fox; James W. Lingard; Frank Brower; Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown; Cool White [minstrel]; James Garatagua; R. C. B. Isaacs; George C. Boniface; Edward [minstrel] Haslam; H. Schwicardi; Raffaelle Abecco; E. H. Florence
Citations
1)
Programs. “With such a programme the proceeds of the festival cannot fail to surpass those of last year.”
4)
Says the event was on Friday, but ads in the NYT show a different event at the Academy on Friday, so it must be a mistake. “The two elaborate entertainments . . . proved a success of the first order. . . .
Two thousand applicants were refused admittance. . . . The Wood and Bryant Minstrels held forth in song and dance.”