Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1865, 2:30 PM
25 Dec 1865, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 December 1865, 3.

     “Christmas Day, the Last Performance this season of Wood’s Minstrels in New York City. . . . The farewell performance this season of the Great Start Troupe.  Wood’s Minstrels will commence their travelling tour Jan. 4, 1866.”

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 December 1865, 302.

     “Wood’s Minstrels give their last performances in this city, at their hall on Broadway, this evening, after which they take a rest until Jan. 4th, and that night commence their traveling tour.”

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 January 1866, 310.

     “There were more people in the Broadway Theatre on Christmas night than there were ever in it before at one time, the receipts footing up the goodly sum of twelve hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents, the number of visitors being two thousand and fifty-two.”