Sanford’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fox's Old Bowery Theatre (until 1/67)

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 April 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jul 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Sanford’s Minstrels

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 July 1866, 7.

"Burlesque Opera Troupe, the Brass Band and Keystone Boys, Burlesques, Farces, Songs and Dances."

2)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 July 1866.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 July 1866, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 July 1866, 7.
5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 July 1866, 110.

“We should prefer to see this pioneer of minstrelsy in some other establishment, where a better class of people could have a chance to attend his entertainments”; also notes that “Sanford’s troupe is the only minstrel organization now performing in this city, Bryant’s, San Franciscos [sic], Sharpley’s, and Christy’s having ‘faded and gone.’”

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 28 July 1866, 126.

“Owing to the heat, the character of the house, etc., Mr. Sanford has not met with success, we are sorry to say.”