Wood's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 November 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM
20 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM
21 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM
22 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM
23 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM
24 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels; Cool White [minstrel]; H. Schwicardi; R. C. B. Isaacs; C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood; Edward [minstrel] Haslam; Master Richard Coker; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; David S. Wambold; A. J. Talbot; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; P. B. Isaacs; J. Leis; Charley [minstrel] Fox; M. Lewis [minstrel]; Frank Brower

2)

Happy Uncle Tom

aka Ghost of happy Uncle Tom, The

Participants: Frank Brower

3)

aka Crisis 'again,' The

Participants: A. J. Talbot

4)

Comic banjo solos

Participants: Charley [minstrel] Fox

5)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

6)

"Cruelty to Johnny"

7)

"Gobble Family, The"

aka My grandfather's farm yard

Composer(s): Kirbye

8)

Robinson Crusoe, [burlesque]

9)

Railroad explosion, The

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 October 1863, 7.

2)

Announcement: New York Herald, 19 October 1863.

3)

Review: New York Clipper, 31 October 1863, 229.

“The company are drawing full houses, as they always do. . . . The matinees every Saturday continue to be very attractive and afford considerable pleasure for the little ones.”