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:
11 October 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
02 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
03 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
04 Aug 1864, Matinee
04 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
05 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM
06 Aug 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels; Frank Brower; Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy

2)

"Bombardment of Petersburg, The"

3)

Gissipius, the Roman father

aka Gisippus, the Roman father

4)

"Poor old maids"

aka Old maids' lament, The ; Old maid's lament; Old maids lament; Poor old spinsters; Old maids

Composer(s): M.

5)

aka Pompey mose

6)

"Dear Mother, I've come home to eat"

Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]

Text Author: Cross

7)

"Clear the track"

8)

"Jack on the green"

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

9)

"Road to Richmond, The"

Composer(s): Emmett

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 July 1864.

Matinee on Fast Day, August 4.

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 August 1864.

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 August 1864.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 13 August 1864, 142.

“It is good to go to Wood’s—in addition to a pleasing entertainment, you have the opportunity to see many pretty ladies of the metrop., arrayed in gorgeous and gossamer [sic] apparel, who look so captivating as to almost seduce us from the allegiance we already owe to a bevy of beauties that we may call our own.”