Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:

This event is still undergoing additional verification.

Last Updated:
11 March 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
03 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
04 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
05 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
06 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
07 Nov 1863, 2:30 PM
07 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

No performers listed in any of the ads this week.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels

2)

Panorama of the Hudson River

3)

Happy Uncle Tom

aka Ghost of happy Uncle Tom, The

4)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

5)

Calithumpians’ target excursion, The

aka Target excursion; Panorama of the North River

6)

aka Crisis 'again,' The

7)

"Cruelty to Johnny"

8)

Smiggy McGlural

aka Smiggy McGhural; Smiggy McGuirrel

9)

Nick Whiffles (minstrel version)

10)

"Bid me discourse"

Composer(s): Bishop

11)

Comic banjo solos

Citations

1)

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

2)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 November 1863, 238.

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 November 1863, 1.

4)

Review: New York Herald, 09 November 1863, 7.

“Bryants’, Wood’s, Christy’s, and Hooley’s at Brooklyn continue the even tenor of their way. Their halls are nightly crowded to excess. They change their programmes weekly and certainly merit the immense patronage they one and all receive.”