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:
6 December 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
18 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
19 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
20 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Wood’s Minstrels

“Willie has gone to war” (new song)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: James Garatagua; Charley [minstrel] Fox; 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]; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; P. B. Isaacs; J. Leis; M. Lewis [minstrel]

2)

"Sucric euqselrub"

aka Circus Burlesque [backwards]

3)

Wake up, William Henry

aka Wake up William Henry

Text Author: White

4)

"Bird hunters, The"

5)

"Willie has gone to war"

Composer(s): Foster

Text Author: Cooper [comp-lyricist]

6)

"Teutonic warblers, The"

7)

Stage struck heroes, The

aka Stage-struck heroes

8)

aka Favorite ballads ; Ballads and warblings; Beautiful ballads

Participants: Master Richard Coker

9)

"Ravel acrobats"

10)

11)

Flying horses

12)

"Dancing globes"

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 June 1863, 7.

2)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 20 June 1863, 78.

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 June 1863, 12.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 27 June 1863, 83.

“Wood’s Minstrels have been meeting with their usual success during the week. In the company we find a complete quartette. Messrs. Lockwood, Henry, Schwicardi, and Glenn, are each artists of taste and culture. Nelse Seymour and Charley Fox, in their eccentricities, prevail with much effect upon the risibilities [sic] of the audience. Seymour is an original comedian, and is fast becoming a Broadway favorite. Master Wood continues to please by his sweet vocalization. He is possessed of a very musical voice, and if not taxed too hard in its crudity, he may become one of the best ballad singers in the country.”

5)

Review: New York Clipper, 27 June 1863, 83.

“We puzzled ourselves almost to the pitch of consenting to become a Brigadier General, last week, in trying to decipher the meaning of a couple of words, the title of a new act introduced at Wood’s Minstrels. Here they are: ‘Sucric Euqselrub.’”