Wood’s Minstrels
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 PM08 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
P: Prof. Seigrist; Siegrist’s troupe of performing dogs
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
2)
“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.’”
3)
“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.”