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:
30 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
12 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
13 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
14 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
15 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
16 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: J. Leis; Frank Brower; M. Lewis [minstrel]; Cool White [minstrel]; Charles Kemble Fox; R. C. B. Isaacs; H. Schwicardi; W. [minstrel] Patterson; Master Richard Coker; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; David S. Wambold; A. J. Talbot; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; P. B. Isaacs; T. Schapcott

2)

Railroad explosion, The

3)

Happy Uncle Tom

aka Ghost of happy Uncle Tom, The

4)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

5)

"Lecture on mugology"

aka Mugology

6)

"Cruelty to Johnny"

7)

Smiggy McGlural

aka Smiggy McGhural; Smiggy McGuirrel

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 January 1864.

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 16 January 1864, 315.

“Wood’s Minstrels number a great many ladies among their patrons, the hall itself being one of their favorite resorts, while the beautiful singing of the quartette engaged here assist [sic] in drawing them there. Mr. Wood’s company, as now organized, is second to none, either in point of vocal, instrumental, or comic ability."

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 16 January 1864, 318.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 23 January 1864, 323.

“[I]f you don’t enjoy the jolliest laugh you ever enjoyed, call us a demoralized and hyppopotomical man-eater. . . . [Brower and Fox] are gorgeous! In a word, and to be explicit, they’re ‘hunky dora.’”