Event Information
Venue(s):
Hooley’s Minstrel Hall
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
2 May 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
08 May 1865, Evening
09 May 1865, Evening
10 May 1865, Evening
11 May 1865, Evening
12 May 1865, Evening
13 May 1865, Evening
Program Details
Benefit for Budworth on 05/12/65.
Performers and/or Works Performed
6)
aka Polly Ann
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 May 1865, 7.
“Grand and glorious bill this week. First time of the following novelties: - Ball Masque, Countryman on Broadway, Man the life boat, Adelaide and Alphonso, Polly Ann, &c.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 May 1865.
“Benefit of W. S. Budworth and last appearance but one, on Friday evening, May 12, 1865. Look out for a great bill.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 13 May 1865, 39.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 13 May 1865, 38.
“Mr. W. S. Budworth, the clever Ethiopian comedian, takes a benefit on the 12th inst., which we hope will be a bumper.”
5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 20 May 1865, 46.
“W. S. Budworth, one of the few good performers attached to Hooley’s Bowery Minstrel Troupe, finished his connection with that establishment on the 13th.”