Wood's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 June 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
03 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
04 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
05 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
06 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
07 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

COMMENT: NYH Ads change on Tuesday, dropping “Stranger, The” and “Lord Lovel” and adding “Hamlet.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels;  Edward [minstrel] Haslam;  Nelse Seymour;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor];  James W. [minstrel] Glenn;  P. B. Isaacs;  J. Leis;  M. Lewis [minstrel];  Eph Horn;  James Garatagua;  Charley [minstrel] Fox;  Cool White [minstrel];  H. Schwicardi;  R. C. B. Isaacs;  C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood
2)
"Four vultures, The"
3)
Happy Uncle Tom
aka Ghost of happy Uncle Tom, The
4)
"Lord Lovel"
aka Lord Lovell
5)
Sambo's opinion
6)
Echo, The, [minstrel]
7)
"Sandy Gibson's"
aka Sandy Gibson
Composer(s): Emmett
8)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
9)
Stranger, The, [minstrel parody]
aka Strangers

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 March 1863, 7.
“In preparation – THE NEW PRIZE PLAY, GRAND DAD JOE.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 March 1863, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 March 1863, 7.
Program listed is slightly different from SUN and MON.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 March 1863, 7.