Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 July 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
28 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
29 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
30 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
01 May 1863, 8:00 PM
02 May 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

R.C.B. Isaacs and P.B. Isaacs are the Isaacs Brothers.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: M. Lewis [minstrel]; Charley [minstrel] Fox; James Garatagua; Frank Brower; H. Schwicardi; Cool White [minstrel]; C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood; R. C. B. Isaacs; Edward [minstrel] Haslam; Nelse Seymour; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; P. B. Isaacs; J. Leis

2)

Terrific combat on horseback

aka Combat on horseback

Participants: Frank Brower; Nelse Seymour

3)

No discount on dat

aka Dar's no discount on dat

Participants: Charley [minstrel] Fox

4)

Sixteen thousand years ago

aka 16,000 years ago; Dem good old times; or, Sixteen thousand years ago

Text Author: Williams [dramatist-minstrel]

5)

Three blind mice, The, [minstrel sketch]

aka Blind mice

6)

"Gobble Family, The"

aka My grandfather's farm yard

Composer(s): Kirbye

7)

"Black Brigade, The"

aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

8)

Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]

Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

9)

Richard III, [burlesque]

aka Richard No. 3 ; Teutonic tyrant of squantum; Richard Ye No. 3; Richard Third; Richard de three times; Dutch Richard III

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 April 1863, 7.

2)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 02 May 1863, 23.

“Increased attraction . . . another change of Programme.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 May 1863, 7.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 09 May 1863, 27.

“‘There was three crows sat on a tree, as black as any crows could be; says one old crow, unto his mate, what shall we do for bread to ate?’ (Sing.) These feeling lines are supposed to have been written by Jeff. Davis, or the reception of the intelligence that Great Britain and France would ‘let him alone.’ They have lately been set to music, and sung by Frank Brower and his confreres at Wood’s Minstrels. As Frank gives out the verses, it is like ‘throwing pearls before swine,’ so tender and natural is he in the delivery. Talking of Frank, did you see that photographic caricature of him some one has recently got out? It’s a good ‘un, and full of ‘pint.’ The ‘breastpin’ is as capital a likeness of Frank as can be made.”