Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Feb 1866, Evening
27 Feb 1866, Evening
28 Feb 1866, Evening
01 Mar 1866, Evening
02 Mar 1866, Evening
03 Mar 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels;  George N. Christy;  William S. Budworth;  Theo. [minstrel] Donaldson
2)
Terpsichorean efforts
Participants:  George N. Christy;  Theo. [minstrel] Donaldson
3)
Banjo solos [during minstrel shows]
Participants:  William S. Budworth
4)
Double polka
5)
Johnson’s veto
6)
"High Daddy"
Composer(s): Emmett
7)
"Solon Shingle," [song]
8)
"When you wear it, think of me"
9)
"Mother, is the battle over?"
Composer(s): Roefs
10)
"When I was a little darling"
11)
"Eileen Aroon"
aka Aileen Aroon
12)
Bal masque des Arions
13)
Rival beaux at the soiree
aka Rivals at the soiree
14)
Com-eke kor-tet
15)
"Wearin' o' the green, The"
aka Wearing of the green
Text Author: Boucicault, House [composer-dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 February 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 February 1866, 5.

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