Christy's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Christy’s Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
George N. Christy
John N. Briggs

Price: $.25; .15 children; $3 and $4 private boxes

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Nov 1862, 7:45 PM
11 Nov 1862, 7:45 PM
12 Nov 1862, 7:45 PM
13 Nov 1862, 7:45 PM
14 Nov 1862, 7:45 PM
15 Nov 1862, 3:00 PM
15 Nov 1862, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George N. Christy
2)
Treaty with Japan, The
Composer(s): Bleecker
Participants:  George N. Christy (role: Julius Quackenbush)
3)
Bedouin Arabs
aka Bedouin Arabs of color

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 November 1862, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 November 1862, 7.
“Third Week of the Sublime Japanese Festival . . . The Colored opera Radiant. George Christy on Stilts . . . Songs, Glees, Choruses, Refrains.”
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 November 1862, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 November 1862, 7.