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:
19 July 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 May 1863, 8:00 PM
05 May 1863, 8:00 PM
06 May 1863, 8:00 PM
07 May 1863, 8:00 PM
08 May 1863, 8:00 PM
09 May 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  James W. [minstrel] Glenn;  P. B. Isaacs;  J. Leis;  M. Lewis [minstrel];  Charley [minstrel] Fox;  James Garatagua;  Frank Brower;  H. Schwicardi;  Cool White [minstrel];  C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood;  R. C. B. Isaacs;  Master Richard Coker;  Edward [minstrel] Haslam;  Nelse Seymour;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]
2)
Richard III, [burlesque]
aka Richard No. 3 ; Teutonic tyrant of squantum; Richard Ye No. 3; Richard Third; Richard de three times; Dutch Richard III
3)
"Wild Arab horses, The"
4)
Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan
5)
No discount on dat
aka Dar's no discount on dat
6)
"Gobble Family, The"
aka My grandfather's farm yard
Composer(s): Kirbye
7)
Sixteen thousand years ago
aka 16,000 years ago; Dem good old times; or, Sixteen thousand years ago
Text Author: Williams [dramatist-minstrel]
8)
"Black Brigade, The"
aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett
9)
Three blind mice, The, [minstrel sketch]
aka Blind mice

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 April 1863, 12.
Announces Master Wood.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 May 1863, 7.
“The greatest juvenile balladist of the age . . . Master Wood in favorite ballads.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 May 1863, 7.

“First appearance of the wonderful musical prodigy, Master Wood, the greatest juvenile balladist of the age.”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 May 1863, 27.

“Talking of singers, reminds us that we are to have a sensation this week at Wood’s Minstrels, in the person of Master Wood, who is pronounced ‘the greatest juvenile balladist of the age,’ his age being about eleven years.  We are told that he is not like the majority of juvenile prodigies, but is a regular wonder in the singing line.  We shall see and hear for ourselves and report accordingly.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 09 May 1863, 32.

“First appearance of the wonderful musical prodigy, Master Wood, the greatest Juvenile Baladist [sic] of the age.”

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 May 1863, 12.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 May 1863, 38.
[Written 05/08/63.] “We have not been able to attend Wood’s Minstrels this week, and cannot say, therefore, how the lad, Wood, was received in his ballad singing.  We hear, however, that he is very clever, and an attractive card.  Fox, Brown, and Seymour, continue to infuse much merriment into ye nightly programme of ye house of ye minstrels.”

COMMENT: Brown must be Brower.