Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Christy’s Minstrel Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
10 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
11 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
12 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
13 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM
14 Nov 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Benefit for Prendergast [THU]. Program includes harp and banjo solos, new songs, acts, dances and plantation scenes.

Keyword Current Events because of Election.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels;  E. [minstrel] Bowers;  Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy;  Thomas B. [Minstrel] Prendergast
2)
"How goes the election"
3)
"Gigantic Swindle,The; or, $500 Out”"
aka $500 out
4)
"Castle Garden sports"
5)
Mississippi fling
Participants:  Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy
6)
"High Daddy"
Composer(s): Emmett

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 November 1863, 7.

 “Another of those grand and varied entertainments as given only by this talented company. ‘Look at the new features.’ How Goes the Election. The Gigantic Swindle: or $500 Out. Castle Garden Sports. Mississippi Fling. New songs, acts, dances and plantation scenes. Concluding with High Daddy.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 November 1863, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 November 1863, 7.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 November 1863, 5.

“George Christy issues a new programme to-night. It is up to the moment, and capable of keeping the audience in a roar.”

 

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 November 1863, 7.

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 21 November 1863, 251.

“At Hooley’s Opera House in Broadway, under George Christy’s management, the minstrel boys continue as lively and laughable as ever, while Purdy in his Mississippi Fling, Prendergast in his ballad singing, and E. Bowers’ laughable and pantomimic eccentricities excite the risible faculty to the highest pitch.  On the 12 inst., Mr. Prendergast took a benefit, and had a good turn out.”