Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Price: $.30

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Jan 1865, 7:30 PM
03 Jan 1865, 7:30 PM
04 Jan 1865, 7:30 PM
05 Jan 1865, 7:30 PM
06 Jan 1865, 7:30 PM
07 Jan 1865, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Current Events: Hamlet

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels;  Archy Hughes;  Edward [minstrel] Haslam;  Unidentified [Isaacs Brothers] Isaacs;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor];  James W. [minstrel] Glenn;  Frederick R. Mollenhauer;  Mr. Shapcott [minstrel];  John T. Boyce [minstrel];  H. Schwicardi;  C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood;  Frank Brower;  Leslie Chase (Lew) [minstrel] Brimmer;  Cool White [minstrel]
2)
Happy Uncle Tom
aka Ghost of happy Uncle Tom, The
3)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
4)
"Secession soothers"
5)
"Phour Phunny Phellows"
6)
Miller and his men, The, [minstrel version]
aka Miller and his man
7)
"Rip tearing Johnny"
8)
"I’d choose to be a baby"
9)
"On to Richmond"
10)
Comic banjo solos

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 January 1865.
Comedians, quartettes, instrumentalists.  Frank Brower’s reappearance.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 January 1865, 4.
Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 07 January 1865, 310.

4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 January 1865, 311.