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:
5 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 May 1864, 8:00 PM
31 May 1864, 8:00 PM
01 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
02 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
03 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels;  Charley [minstrel] Fox;  Frank Brower;  Frank [minstrel] Moran;  William S. Budworth
2)
"Dave-and-sport brothers"
Composer(s): Unidentified
3)
"I'm going to fight mit Sigel"
aka Going to fight mit Sigel; Fights mit Sigel
Composer(s): Schnapps
4)
"Thoughtful emotions"
5)
Stocks up
aka Stocks up and stocks down
6)
Four crows, The
7)
Review of the past
Composer(s): Unidentified
8)
Broadway belle, The
9)
"Black Brigade, The," [plantation song and dance]
aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett
10)
Comic banjo solos
11)
Othello, [burlesque]
aka Dar’s de money
12)
"Gobble Family, The"
aka My grandfather's farm yard
Composer(s): Kirbye

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 May 1864.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 June 1864, 62.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 04 June 1864, 64.
Lists Othello and “The Gobble Family.”
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 11 June 1864, 70.
“[W]e can spend an evening very comfortably and pleasantly at Wood’s Minstrel Hall, which is as cool an establishment as there is on the Broadway. With Nigger airs and native graces, the programme abounds; while song and dance, fun and jocularity make up an entertainment of great popularity. One of the acts is ‘Going to Fight Mit Sigel.’  Good many people don’t ‘fit mit sigel’ as much as they need.”