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:
16 December 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Nov 1863, 7:30 PM
01 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
02 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
03 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
04 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM
05 Dec 1863, 2:30 PM
05 Dec 1863, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels; Edward [minstrel] Haslam; 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; Cool White [minstrel]; H. Schwicardi; R. C. B. Isaacs; Master Richard Coker

2)

Camille, [burlesque]

aka African Camille

Participants: Charley [minstrel] Fox (role: Arnaud); Frank Brower (role: Camille)

3)

Challenge dance

4)

Four crows, The

5)

"Rebel privateer, The"

6)

Grecian statues

aka Grecian statue

7)

Silver trumpet, The

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 November 1863.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 November 1863, 7.

Matinee time.

3)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 05 December 1863, 267.

“Negro burlesques, caricatures, singing, dancing, etc.”

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 12 December 1863, 275.

Camille was “successfully performed at Wood’s Minstrels. As the heroine, Mr. F. Brower, exhibits touches of native talent which stamp him as an actress of many parts. . . . As Arnaud, [Fox] surpasses himself. In his great grief over the corpus of his consumptive bride, the effect is electrical, and the consequent denoument—‘dongyoumong,’ we believe the French call it—is startling. Taken as an entirety, this pathetic little sketch is a most wonderful triumph of matter over mind.”