San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Feb 1875, Evening
02 Feb 1875, Evening
03 Feb 1875, Evening
04 Feb 1875, Evening
05 Feb 1875, Evening
06 Feb 1875, Evening
06 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Butler Pantomime Troupe;  Mackin and Wilson [song and dance];  Billy Birch [minstrel];  Charley Backus;  Robert [pantomimist] Butler;  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph;  Eugene [minstrel baritone] Tremaine
2)
"Down among the bluebells"
Composer(s): Fox
Text Author: Eccles
Participants:  Eugene [minstrel baritone] Tremaine
3)
"Little Tommy Knox"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Charley Backus
4)
"Old Grimes' cellar door"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Billy Birch [minstrel]
5)
"We sat by the river"
aka You and I
Composer(s): Barnard
Text Author: Barnard
Participants:  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph
6)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Mackin and Wilson [song and dance]
7)
Centennial; or, 1776 and 1876
Participants:  Robert [pantomimist] Butler
8)
As you were and as you are

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 31 January 1875, 11.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 February 1875, 366.

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