San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Sep 1865, Evening
26 Sep 1865, Evening
27 Sep 1865, Evening
28 Sep 1865, Evening
29 Sep 1865, Evening
30 Sep 1865, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Dick Sands [minstrel dancer]; Billy Birch [minstrel]; David S. Wambold; William H. [minstrel] Bernard; Charley Backus

2)

Burlesque on the Ravels

3)

Young Africa on the flying trapeze

Participants: Charley Backus

4)

"Susan's Sunday out"

Composer(s): Whymark

5)

aka Nerves original; Nervés

Composer(s): Gordon

Text Author: Brian

6)

Trouble at the Metropolitan Hotel

aka Troubles at the Metropolitan Hotel

Participants: Billy Birch [minstrel]

7)

aka Favorite ballads ; Ballads and warblings; Beautiful ballads

Participants: David S. Wambold

8)

"Voluminous Bernard"

9)

aka Clog reel

Participants: Dick Sands [minstrel dancer]

10)

Imitations of actors

aka Imitations of famous actors; Imitations of popular actors; Limitations of great actors; Parlor theatricals

11)

Herrmann in the shade

12)

"Woman in red," [burlesque]

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 August 1865, 198.

“The managerial quartet appear to understand the tastes of the habitués of their establishment, and novelty on novelty is the result of the efforts of this ‘Congress of Artists.’”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 September 1865.

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 September 1865, 200.

4)

Review: New York Herald, 01 October 1865, 4.

“San Francisco Minstrels.—The superiority of the troupe maintains for it an amount of patronage which but few establishments of the kind can boast of. The novelty and genuine wit of its burlesques, the inimitable comic talent of its leading members, and the fine ballad singing of its principal tenor, Mr. Wambold, make [illeg.] sum of attraction which is irresistible. The advent of this troupe will effect a revolution in the minstrels business, stale pieces and wornout [sic] voices can longer keep the boards.”