San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 February 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jun 1866, Evening
12 Jun 1866, Evening
13 Jun 1866, Evening
14 Jun 1866, Evening
15 Jun 1866, Evening
16 Jun 1866, Evening

Program Details

400th performance (per NYC)

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
aka Troubles at the Metropolitan Hotel
Participants:  Billy Birch [minstrel]
4)
aka Political harangue; Political address; Election speech
Participants:  Charley Backus
5)
aka We are the happiest couple out
8)
aka Nerves original; Nervés
Composer(s): Gordon
Text Author: Brian
9)
aka Board of health exercising with Kehoe’s clubs

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 June 1866, 5.

“Messrs. Birch, Wambold, Bernard & Backus still crowd their hall at No. 585 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel.  The programme is wound up with the burlesque on Young Africa on the Flying Trapeze.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 June 1866, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 16 June 1866.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 23 June 1866, 86.

The Four Hundredth Performance in this city of the Frisco Minstrels was given at their hall on the 11th inst., on which occasion a fair house was in attendance, but not a crowded one, as the approaching warm weather affects all places of amusement.”