Event Information
Venue(s):
Christy’s Minstrel Hall
Price: Evening prices: .25, no half price; $3 and $4 private boxes. Matinee prices: .25; .15 children
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
11 August 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
15 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
16 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
17 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
18 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
19 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
20 Sep 1862, 3:00 PM
20 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
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Composer(s): Unidentified
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Composer(s): Unidentified
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 September 1862, 7.
Times, prices.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 15 September 1862, 2.
“The Minstrels – Wood’s, Bryant’s and Christy’s – have been profiting by the closing of the theatres. At all of them the receipts during the week have been large.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 September 1862, 7.
“Organized 1842. The oldest established Band in the United States.”
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 September 1862, 5.
Christy “has the best company in the City, and is himself unapproachable as an exponent of negro comicality.”
