New Bowery Theatre: Benefit to J. W. Lingard

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Bowery Theatre

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jun 1865, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Wood's Minstrels; Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy; Frank Brower; George Lingard [actor and tenor]; Cool White [minstrel]; Nelse Seymour; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; Dave [minstrel] Reed; George C. Boniface; Mickey [jig dancer] Warren; Edward [actor] Eddy

2)

Black-eyed Susan; or, All in the downs

aka Black eyed Susan

Text Author: Jerrold

Participants: Edward [actor] Eddy

3)

Lingard Worried by Boniface

Participants: George C. Boniface (role: Impudent Intruder); George Lingard [actor and tenor]

4)

Stranger, The, [minstrel parody]

aka Strangers

Participants: Nelse Seymour; Dave [minstrel] Reed

5)

Virginia breakdown

aka Virginny breakdown

Participants: Mickey [jig dancer] Warren

6)

Comic duet, banjo

Participants: Nelse Seymour; Dave [minstrel] Reed

7)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

Participants: Frank Brower; Cool White [minstrel]

8)

Ballad, unidentified

Composer(s): Unknown composer

9)

"Dear Mother, I've come home to eat"

Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]

Text Author: Cross

Participants: Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy

10)

Robert Macaire; or, The two murderers, [melodrama]

aka Auberge des adrets

Text Author: Selby

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 June 1865, 7.

Includes program.