Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Christy’s Minstrel Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 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, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Keyword Current Events is because of the Russian Naval Delegation to New York.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels;  Thomas Simpson [minstrel];  Thomas B. [Minstrel] Prendergast;  [Minstrel] Hempe;  [Christy’s Minstrels] Lowrey;  George N. Christy;  E. [minstrel] Bowers;  Jackson Haines;  James Gaynor;  T. or F. or J. [minstrel] Herman;  Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy
2)
"Russian Admiral, The"
3)
Mississippi fling
4)
Intelligent contraband
5)
"Moor of Venice, The"
6)
"How are you, greenbacks?"
aka How are you greenbacks?; How are you green-backs? ; How are you, greenbacks!; We're comin', Fadder Abram; We're coming, Fadder Abram; We're coming, Father Abram
Composer(s): Glover
Text Author: Griffin, Bowers
7)
"Gigantic Swindle,The; or, $500 Out”"
aka $500 out
8)
Actor and the singer; or, Gaily the troubadour, The
aka Gaily the troubadour
Text Author: Griffin
9)
Intelligence Office Recruit
10)
Fulton Market on Saturday night

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 October 1863, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 November 1863.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 November 1863, 7.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 November 1863, 7.
5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 November 1863, 8.

“Among the most sensible showmen in this respect are the minstrel people—the Christy Minstrels, for instance, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—who give you a first-class entertainment of its kind, and after keeping you in good humor for as long a time as it is safe for anybody to be in such an abnormal condition, send you home before ten o’clock as contented as if you had just partaken of a moderate but delicious little supper.”

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 November 1863, 7.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 November 1863, 1.
8)
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.”