Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Price: $.50; $.75 reserved; $.25 gallery

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 May 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Jun 1872, Evening
11 Jun 1872, Evening
12 Jun 1872, Evening
13 Jun 1872, Evening
13 Jun 1872, 2:30 PM
14 Jun 1872, Evening
15 Jun 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Sam Sharpley's Minstrels;  Delehanty and Hengler [minstrels];  William Henry [minstrel] Rice;  Monroe Dempster [minstrel tenor];  Harry [comedian] Macarthy;  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph;  Nelse Seymour;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor];  Charley White;  Samuel M. Sharpley
2)
"Come like a beautiful dream"
Composer(s): Danks
Text Author: Cooper [comp-lyricist]
Participants:  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]
3)
"When you and I were young, Maggie"
Composer(s): Butterfield
Text Author: Johnson
Participants:  Monroe Dempster [minstrel tenor]
4)
"When the band begins to play"
Composer(s): Hunt
Participants:  Nelse Seymour
5)
Olio
Participants:  Delehanty and Hengler [minstrels]
6)
In the provinces
7)
Short strike, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 June 1872, 8.
2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 June 1872, 8.

"Sharpley’s Minstrels are not actual negroes, but they are capital performers in their line, and they enjoy a well-earned reputation.”

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 June 1872, 94.

Difficult to read.