Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 November 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Aug 1864, 7:45 PM
30 Aug 1864, 7:45 PM
31 Aug 1864, 7:45 PM
01 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
02 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM
03 Sep 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels
2)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
Mississippi fling
4)
"Dear Mother, I've come home to eat"
Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]
Text Author: Cross
5)
"Pompey Moore"
aka Pompey mose
6)
Robinson Crusoe, [burlesque]
7)
Contraband's college, The
aka Contraband's cottage; Rebellious students at the contraband's college

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 August 1864.

“[C]hange of time.”  Doors now open at 6:45 p.m., and the performance starts at 7:45 p.m.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 03 September 1864, 167.