Christy’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 May 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jan 1866, 8:00 PM
23 Jan 1866, 8:00 PM
24 Jan 1866, 8:00 PM
25 Jan 1866, 8:00 PM
26 Jan 1866, 8:00 PM
27 Jan 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Christy's Minstrels; Theo. [minstrel] Donaldson; Charles [Christy's Minstrels] Melville; George N. Christy; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Napoleon W. Gould; William S. Budworth; W. W. [minstrel] Hodgkins; Fred Abbott [minstrel dancer]

2)

Brass band quickstep

3)

Double-bedded room, The

aka Double bedded room, The

Text Author: Morton

4)

aka Nerves original; Nervés

Composer(s): Gordon

Text Author: Brian

5)

Mrs. Day’s New Year’s calls for 1866

aka Sam in cork

Text Author: Christy

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 January 1866, 7.