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 June 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM
29 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM
30 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM
31 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM
01 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
02 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels;  W. [minstrel] Patterson;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor];  James W. [minstrel] Glenn;  P. B. Isaacs;  T. Schapcott;  J. Leis;  John T. Boyce [minstrel];  Charley [minstrel] Fox;  ? Stewart [minstrel];  Frank Brower;  Cool White [minstrel];  C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood;  R. C. B. Isaacs
2)
Camille, [burlesque]
aka African Camille
3)
Our foreign relations
aka Uncle Sam's foreign relations; Foreign relations
4)
Challenge dance
5)
Conscripts, The
6)
Cotton field sports
Composer(s): Unidentified
7)
"Hurry up"

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 March 1864, 7.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 April 1864, 403.
“These choice cuts consist of Nigger eccentricities, plaintive and comic songs, special acts, and almost everything known to the black art.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 02 April 1864, 406.