Event Information
Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall
Price: $.30; .50 reserved
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
07 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
08 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
09 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
10 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
11 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
12 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Program included “Siegrist and Son†in acrobatic feats and Siegrist and his performing dogs. Unclear which members of the Siegrist family.
P: Prof. Seigrist; Siegrist’s troupe of performing dogs
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 November 1864.
2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 12 November 1864, 247.
“Fourth and Last Week of Siegrist’s Wonderful Troupe of Performing Dogs, which during the past three weeks attracted Crowded Houses. . . .[they] received unbounded applause. They [the dogs] will appear every evening as The Fireman, Gentleman Pat, The Milkman, The Highland Laddie, Lucy Neal, &c, &c. Acrobatic Feats. Wood’s Minstrels in their much admired Ethiopian Drawing-Room Entertainment.”
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 12 November 1864, 246.
“Wood’s Minstrels will keep the polls open every evening during the week, in order to allow people of all parties an opportunity to see a good performance, ‘untrammeled by political influences.’”
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 November 1864.
Wood’s Minstrels in their Challenge program.