Christy’s Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
3 February 2013
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
09 Apr 1866, Evening10 Apr 1866, Evening
11 Apr 1866, Evening
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
2)
aka 16,000 years ago;
Dem good old times; or, Sixteen thousand years ago
Participants: George N. Christy; William S. Budworth
4)
aka Gaffer Green
Composer(s): Russell
Participants: Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck
8)
aka U. S. Grant;
USG;
plantation festival scene;
US Grant;
Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
Citations
1)
“George Christy’s very fashionable establishment, the New Fifth Avenue Opera House, is crowded every evening and at the fine matinee performances on Saturday. A new programme includes many musical gems, dances and burlesques, with very funny Ethiopian extravaganzas. They will be all given this evening. On the list we find Sixteen Thousand Years Ago, by Budworth and George Christy; the Raw Recruits, concluding with the popular Walk-Around, U.S.G.”