Christy's Minstrels

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

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels;  William Castle;  George N. Christy;  Billy Quinn;  Eugene Florence;  George Wrightman;  Jules Stratton [minstrel]
2)
Peter Piper Pepper Podge
Composer(s): Unidentified
Participants:  George N. Christy
3)
Ernani, chorus
Composer(s): Verdi
4)
"Bonny light horseman"
Composer(s): Unidentified
Participants:  Billy Quinn
5)
"Mother, oh! sing me to rest"
Composer(s): Keller
Text Author: Hemans
Participants:  William Castle
6)
Patriotic and Sentimental Ballads
Composer(s): Unidentified
Participants:  George Wrightman;  Jules Stratton [minstrel]
7)
"Plantation jig"
Composer(s): Unidentified
8)
"Grand duet"
Participants:  George N. Christy;  Billy Quinn
9)
Pas de Danube
Composer(s): Unidentified
Participants:  Eugene Florence

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 September 1862, 7.
Times, prices.
2)
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.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 September 1862, 7.
“Organized 1842. The oldest established Band in the United States.”
4)
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.”