Grand Opening Night of the Fall and Winter Season

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Price: $.30; .50

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
13 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
14 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
15 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
16 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
19 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Price has gone up since the previous week.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels

2)

"Fall of Atlanta"

3)

"Finnegan’s wake"

Composer(s): Pastor

4)

Conscripts, The

5)

Countryman’s visit, The

6)

7)

Contraband's college, The

aka Contraband's cottage; Rebellious students at the contraband's college

8)

Miller and his men, The, [minstrel version]

aka Miller and his man

9)

"Clear the track"

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 September 1864.

Works.

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 17 September 1864, 182.

“The price of admission hereafter will be 30 cents (and 50 cents for reserved seats—same as before); the increase is but a trifle, and the habitues will freely give it in view of the heavy expenses under which managers now labor.”

3)

Review: New York Clipper, 24 September 1864, 190.

“Wood’s Minstrels have had still another week of good business. The hall in which the entertainments of this band are given is probably the most beautiful minstrel hall in the country, and when filled with such brilliant assemblages as now attend the performances of Wood’s company, presents a most splendid appearance.”