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:
14 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
19 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
20 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
21 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
22 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
23 Jan 1864, 7:30 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; W. [minstrel] Patterson; Master Richard Coker; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; A. J. Talbot; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; P. B. Isaacs; T. Schapcott; J. Leis; Charley [minstrel] Fox; M. Lewis [minstrel]; Frank Brower

2)

Railroad explosion, The

3)

"Lecture on mugology"

aka Mugology

4)

Camille, [burlesque]

aka African Camille

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

5)

"Gideon's band"

Composer(s): Dodworth

6)

"North and south"

7)

Our African cousins

aka African cousins

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 January 1864.

2)

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

Bower and Fox are “gorgeous. In a word, and to be explicit, they’re ‘hunky dora.’ But in addition to the great burlesque, we are to have another mug of ‘Mugology.’

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 23 January 1864, 327.

Performers.