Christy's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Christy’s Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
George N. Christy
John N. Briggs

Price: $.25; $3 and $4 private boxes; .15 children to matinee

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 July 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
07 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
08 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
09 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
10 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
11 Oct 1862, 3:00 PM
11 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels;  George N. Christy;  Sylvester Bleecker;  Billy Quinn;  Eugene Florence;  Jules Stratton [minstrel];  Leopold [violinist, conductor, minstrel] Meyer;  Napoleon W. Gould;  Frank Spear;  J.C. Morland;  R. [Christy's] Thompson;  J. Harry Clifford
2)
Mischievous monkey, The
Text Author: Bleecker
Participants:  George N. Christy (role: Jocko)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 October 1862, 7.
“[T]he usual varied and excellent bill of entertainment, comprising songs, glees, choruses, sentimental and comic ballads.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 October 1862, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 October 1862.
“Christy’s pleasant little hall of Ethiopian minstrelsy is unmistakably regarded as the best place of its kind in the City. It is always well attended, and the programme of entertainment offered there can scarcely be surpassed.”
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 October 1862, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 October 1862, 7.
Matinee info.