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
4)
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
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’”