Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Feb 1866, Evening
20 Feb 1866, Evening
21 Feb 1866, Evening
22 Feb 1866, Evening
23 Feb 1866, Evening
24 Feb 1866, Evening
24 Feb 1866, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Hamlet the dainty; Hamlet in black
Text Author: Griffin
3)
aka Deaf as a horn
Text Author: Unidentified
4)
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
Text Author: Reed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 February 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 24 February 1866, 366.

     “George Christy’s Minstrels are still giving entertainments to their uptown patrons. Their Opera House is claimed as being ‘the only place of amusement above 14th street’”