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 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
04 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
05 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
06 Aug 1863, 2:30 PM
06 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
07 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
08 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Cool White [minstrel]; David S. Wambold; A. J. Talbot; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood; Master Richard Coker; Charley [minstrel] Fox; Frank Brower

2)

Happy Uncle Tom

aka Ghost of happy Uncle Tom, The

Participants: Frank Brower

3)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

Participants: Frank Brower; Cool White [minstrel]

4)

aka Crisis 'again,' The

Participants: A. J. Talbot

5)

Four crows, The

6)

"Cruelty to Johnny"

Participants: David S. Wambold; James W. [minstrel] Glenn

7)

Broadway belle, The

Participants: Charley [minstrel] Fox

8)

"Raw recruits; or, Abraham's daughter," [song]

Composer(s): Winner

9)

"Black Brigade, The"

aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

10)

Calithumpians’ target excursion, The

aka Target excursion; Panorama of the North River

Participants: Wood's Minstrels

Citations

1)

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

“Sixth and Last Week of the Panorama”

2)

Announcement: New York Post, 05 August 1863, 2.

Wood’s and Bryants’ keep up the funny programmes of performances which their friends always like.”

COMMENT: Bryants’ were off for the summer until their reopening on Monday, August 10, 1863.

3)

Announcement: New York Post, 07 August 1863.

4)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 August 1863, 131.

“The panorama is to be taken off after this week, and will be succeeded by some novelty, the nature of which has not yet transpired outside of the ‘domestic circle.’ There is to be a matinee on Thursday, August 6, on the occasion of our National Thanksgiving.”

5)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 08 August 1863, 136.

“Sixth and last week of the panorama. . . . Henry, Wambold, Lockwood, and Master Wood in favorite ballads.”

6)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 August 1863, 7.