Campbell's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Bowery Theatre

Manager / Director:
M. C. Campbell [minstrel]

Price: $.25 parquet and boxes; .10 amphitheatre; .50 orchestra; $5 private boxes; $1 seats in private boxes

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 June 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
14 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
15 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
16 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
17 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
18 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Hilton, Gray, Waddee, and Gould are a quartet. Leslie, Morrison, and Sivori are from Bryants’ Minstrels.

PART I – “Overture, new”
“Opening chorus, operatic”
“Rock me to sleep Mother” (Gray)
“Juice of the apple” (Davis)
“Mother, I’ve come home to die” (Leslie)
“Refrain – Sweep, oh! (Tyrolean embellishments)” (Wadder)
“Little Maggie Dale” (new) (Gould)
“Kingdom coming” (Booker)
“Lay me to rest, Mother” (Hilton)
“Finale – Darkies apparition, from Sonnambula”
PART II – “Elegant pas” (Eddy)
[unidentified] “Popular ballad” (Gray)
Volunteer’s return from Gettysburg, Penn (Booker as Jimmy Schermerhorn, from Gettysburg; Davis as Tony Dandybo)
Includes: “Song and dance” (Clifford)
“Guitar solo [unidentified] – operatic and medley” (Gould)
Louisiana belle (Davis as Slim Jim, in love with Belle; Booker as Bill Jimerson; Slocum as Julius Pink, a darkey exquisite; Eddy as Louisiana Belle’s sable Venus)
Includes: “Champion jig” (Clifford)
“Hot corn, who’ll buy” (character song) (Wadder)
“Dissertation on the times” (Booker)
Tragedy versus music (Davis, Clifford, Slocum, Gray)
Campbell: Hand down your silver trumpet (plantation walk around) (entire troupe)



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Campbell's Minstrels;  G. W. [minstrel] Hill;  A. [Campbell's] Sawyer;  E. [Campbell's] Green;  L.[minstrel] Bonny;  Frank Edwards;  Signor Ette;  J. Ruick;  Jacob [minstrel] Tannenbaum;  E. N. [Minstrel] Slocum;  George [Minstrel] Gray;  T. (Campbell) Waddee;  M. C. Campbell [minstrel];  Master [dancer] Eddy;  James Morrison;  J. Harry Clifford;  John H. Sivori;  Johnny Booker;  Ned [minstrel] Davis;  Napoleon W. Gould;  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  J. W. [minstrel] Hilton
2)
Overture, unidentified [generic]
3)
Opening chorus operatic [minstrel]
aka Grand operatic scene
4)
"Rock me to sleep, Mother"
5)
"Juice of the apple"
6)
"Dear Mother, I've come home to die"
aka Dear mother I've come home to die
Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]
Text Author: Bowers
7)
"Sweep, oh! (Tyrolean embellishments)"
8)
"Little Maggie Dale"
Composer(s): Buckley
Text Author: Smith
9)
"Kingdom coming"
aka Kingdom's coming; or, The song of the contraband!; Song of the contraband!
Composer(s): Work
Text Author: Work
10)
"Lay me to rest, Mother"
11)
"Darkies apparition, from Sonnambula"
12)
INTERMISSION
13)
"Elegant pas"
14)
Ballad, unidentified
Composer(s): Unknown composer
15)
Volunteer’s return from Gettysburg, Penn
Participants:  Ned [minstrel] Davis (role: Tony Dandybo);  Johnny Booker (role: Jimmy Schermerhorn)
16)
Song and dance
Participants:  J. Harry Clifford
17)
Guitar solo
Participants:  Napoleon W. Gould
18)
Louisiana belle [minstrel]
Participants:  Ned [minstrel] Davis (role: Slim Jim);  Johnny Booker (role: Bill Jimerson);  Master [dancer] Eddy (role: Venus, Louisiana Belle's sable);  E. N. [Minstrel] Slocum (role: Julius Pink)
19)
Champion jig
Participants:  J. Harry Clifford
20)
"Dissertation on the times"
Participants:  Johnny Booker
21)
Tragedy versus music
Participants:  Ned [minstrel] Davis;  J. Harry Clifford;  George [Minstrel] Gray;  E. N. [Minstrel] Slocum
22)
Hand down your silver trumpet
23)
"Hot corn," [song; all unidentified versions]
aka Little Katy; Hot corn, who’ll buy; Hot corn brothers; Hot corn boys

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 July 1863, 7.
Full program.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 July 1863, 7.
Full program.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 13 July 1863, 2.
AN: NYH 07/13/63, p.2
4)
Advertisement: New York Sun, 14 July 1863.
 “Campbell’s Minstrels.  18 in number . . . Second week.  Great bill this evening.  The most brilliant and undiminished success ever achieved by any minstrel troupe in the world…Six new songs in the first part.  The entire programme replete with sweet melody, finished burlesque acting, fairy-like dances, and enchanting music, by the most accomplished and artistic company extant.” 
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 July 1863, 7.
“Everything Changed This Evening. . . . Campbell’s Minstrels, Eighteen in Number, The Model Band of the Country.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 18 July 1863, 110.

7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 July 1863, 7.

8)
Review: New York Clipper, 25 July 1863, 115.
“The only places that stemmed the fearful torrent [the draft riots] were Barnum’s Museum, and Campbell’s Minstrels, at the New Bowery.”