San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
06 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
07 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
08 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
09 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM
10 Mar 1866, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold
2)
Innocence and endurance
3)
Africaine, L’; or, Camrinus's opera of lager beer, [burlesque]
aka Gambrino's opera of lager beer; Gambrinus's opera of lager beer
4)
"Jennie with her bonnie blue e'e"
aka Blue-eyed Jennie
Composer(s): Andrews
Text Author: Andrews
Participants:  David S. Wambold
5)
Police court scene
Participants:  Billy Birch [minstrel]
6)
Living photographs
aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits
Participants:  Charley Backus
7)
"Nothing else to do"
8)
Double clog dance
aka Double clog reel; Double clog exercises
9)
"Nerves, The"
aka Nerves original; Nervés
Composer(s): Gordon
Text Author: Brian
10)
Dying brigand, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 March 1866.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 March 1866, 390.

“There you will find a crowded audience every evening, and from the moment the curtain goes up until it falls, except when Wambold is singing, you will see apparently the happiest people in the world, for such roars of laughter are seldom heard in any other place of amusement in the city.”