Wood's Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall
Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
12 August 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
17 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM18 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
19 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
20 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
21 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
22 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Wood's Minstrels; Frank Brower; H. Schwicardi; Cool White [minstrel]; E. H. Florence; R. C. B. Isaacs; C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood; Edward [minstrel] Haslam; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; P. B. Isaacs; J. Leis; M. Lewis [minstrel]; Eph Horn; James Garatagua; Charley [minstrel] Fox
4)
aka The Perche Equipoise;
La perche
Participants: Eph Horn (role: Gabriel Horn); Frank Brower (role: Young Africa/America Brower)
Citations
2)
“We have now four companies of minstrels in New York – viz Wood’s, Bryants’, Christy’s and Campbell’s – all doing an excellent business.”
3)
“You may talk of your tragedies and tragedians, but if you have not seen the tragedy of ‘Othello’ as enacted at Wood’s Minstrels, you have missed the greatest of them all. Frank Brower’s Othello is a rare piece of acting, and draws tears of ‘lafture’ from stout-hearted men and pitying women. . . . Oh! It’s a killing performance. ‘Othello is on this week, and we presume that Wood’s elegant hall will have another run of large audiences.”