Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 May 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
16 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
17 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
18 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM
19 Aug 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels; Frank Brower; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; Tom Vaughn [minstrel]; W. D. [minstrel] Corrister

2)

Haunted house, The, [minstrel sketch]

aka Echo

3)

Four crows, The

4)

aka Nerves original; Nervés

Composer(s): Gordon

Text Author: Brian

5)

Comic banjo solos

6)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

7)

"Bounty jumpers lament"

aka Bounty jumpers

Composer(s): Arlington

Text Author: Murphy

8)

Champion clog dance

9)

"Bird hunters, The"

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Herald, 14 August 1865, 4.

“Amusements This Evening.” “The Echo; or, the Haunted Wood.”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 August 1865, 7.

“The Echo, or the Haunted House.”

3)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 19 August 1865, 150.

The end men will tell new gags and sing new songs. All of the acts in the olio are new. Tom Vaughn has been in the army for the past three years.

4)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 19 August 1865, 151.

5)

Review: New York Clipper, 26 August 1865, 158.

Attendance was excellent every night last week. The company remains as popular as ever. Henry Wood is looking for an end man for his troupe. A “first class” company “in every respect.”