Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Price: $.75 parquet; .50 balcony; .25 children to balcony

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Mar 1866, 8:00 PM

Program Details

First appearance of the Shattuck.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy’s Minstrels, band;  Christy's Minstrels;  Jacob [minstrel] Tannenbaum;  Joseph Bailey [minstrel, trumpeter];   Vogel [Christy's Minstrels];  Charles Voss;  Unidentified Minstrel Simpson [Christy's Minstrels];  Willie Guy [minstrel];  George N. Christy;  W. W. [minstrel] Hodgkins;  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  Fred Abbott [minstrel dancer];  Napoleon W. Gould;  Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck;  William S. Budworth;  George L. [Christy's Minstrels] Hall;  F. [minstrel] Gray;  Charley [minstrel] Gardner;  Theo. [minstrel] Donaldson;  George Guy [baritone];  Dick [minstrel] Healey
2)
Overture, unidentified [generic]
Participants:  Christy’s Minstrels, band
3)
"Darkie’s life is always gay, A"
aka Darkey's life is always gay; Gay is the darkey's life; Gay is the darkie's life
4)
"Only waiting"
Participants:  Napoleon W. Gould
5)
"Solon Shingle," [song]
Participants:  William S. Budworth
6)
"Dublin Bay; or, The wreck of the emigrant ship"
Composer(s): Barker
Participants:  Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck
7)
Comic song
aka Comic ditty
Participants:  George N. Christy
8)
"Hearts and homes"
Composer(s): Blockley
Text Author: Young
Participants:  Frank [minstrel] Leslie
9)
Fannie Bloomer
aka Miss Bloomer at the soiree; Fanny Bloomer; Fancy Bloomer
10)
Othello and Desdemona
11)
Heller outdone
12)
Whose foot dat a burning
13)
Chinese fiddle, The
aka Original Chinese fiddle
14)
Dieu et la bayadère, Le; ou, La courtisane amoureuse, selections
aka Bayadere, La; Bayadere & Co.
Composer(s): Auber
15)
Banjo solos [during minstrel shows]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 24 March 1866.

Gives complete cast.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 March 1866, 5.

Works, performers.  “After a magnificent instrumental overture by the orchestra, the company will sing ‘Gay is the Darkey’s Life.’ . . . The evening performances at the new Fifth Avenue Opera House conclude at a quarter to ten o’clock.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 March 1866, 7.

“First appearance of the distinguished Basso Mr. C. F. SHATTUCK, and the celebrated clog dancer CHAS. GARDNER.”