San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Mar 1866, Evening
20 Mar 1866, Evening
21 Mar 1866, Evening
22 Mar 1866, Evening
23 Mar 1866, Evening
24 Mar 1866, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: San Francisco Minstrels; James H. [minstrel song and dance] Cooper; William [minstrel song and dance] Fields; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; William Henry [minstrel] Rice; Billy Birch [minstrel]; David S. Wambold; William H. [minstrel] Bernard; Charley Backus

2)

Andy Johnson is his name

aka Andy Johnson's policy

Participants: James H. [minstrel song and dance] Cooper; William [minstrel song and dance] Fields

3)

New cabinet, The

Participants: Charley Backus; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; Billy Birch [minstrel]; David S. Wambold

4)

Africaine, L’; or, Camrinus's opera of lager beer, [burlesque]

aka Gambrino's opera of lager beer; Gambrinus's opera of lager beer

Participants: William Henry [minstrel] Rice; David S. Wambold; William H. [minstrel] Bernard

5)

Fat and greasy

Participants: Billy Birch [minstrel]

6)

aka Nerves original; Nervés

Composer(s): Gordon

Text Author: Brian

7)

Double clog dance

aka Double clog reel; Double clog exercises

Participants: James H. [minstrel song and dance] Cooper; William [minstrel song and dance] Fields

8)

Innocence and endurance

9)

Flying trapeze, [burlesque]

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Herald, 19 March 1866, 5.

Some works and performers. “[M]usic, wit, songs and dances.”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 March 1866.

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 24 March 1866.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 31 March 1866, 406.

“[T]he San Francisco Minstrels are ‘the ne plus ultra of minstrelsy.’”