Event Information

Venue(s):
Christy’s Minstrel Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Jan 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details

We Are Coming” and “Three Hundred Dollars More” might be related to the song “We are coming Father Abram: three hundred thousand more.”

It’s not clear if any performance actually took place, or if it was just Bowers who did not perform.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels
2)
Fulton Market on Saturday night
3)
"We are coming"
4)
"Three hundred dollars more"
5)
Mountain pass, The; or, the three guardsmen
aka “The mountain pass (or the three guardsmen) By Do-mas”
6)
"My money goes with the man's stakes"

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 January 1864.
“First Appearance of Mr. E. Bowers (since his return from Europe).”
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 January 1864, 307.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 January 1864, 315.
“Christy’s Minstrels came to grief on Monday evening Jan. 4th, and Mr. Bowers was unable to ‘make his first appearance since his return from Europe,’ the limited attendance not warranting a continuance of the entertainments.” The hall was rented to another enterprise a week or two later.  SEE AR: NYC 01/23/64, p.323.
4)
Article: New York Clipper, 23 January 1864, 323.
“The hall lately occupied by George Christy’s party is now rented for Perham’s show.”