Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Price: $.25 for children matinee

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Apr 1866, Evening
01 May 1866, Evening
02 May 1866, Evening
03 May 1866, Evening
04 May 1866, Evening
05 May 1866, Evening
05 May 1866, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christy's Minstrels;  George N. Christy;  J. H. [minstrel voc.] Surridge;  J. E. [minstrel] Green;  [unidentified minstrel] Myers
2)
Violintrumpetharmonicanwhistlecombrous
Participants:  [unidentified minstrel] Myers
3)
"Mocking bird, The"
aka Mocking bird song
Participants:  J. E. [minstrel] Green
4)
Bond robbery; or, The skeleton witness
5)
Burlesque monster concert
6)
Black statue, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 April 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 30 April 1866.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 May 1866.

“Old School of Minstrelsy. Ballads, musical gems, comic acts, farces, &c.”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 05 May 1866.

     “George Christy’s Minstrels, up town, are not doing very well at present, although their forces have been strengthened by the addition of J. E. Green and J. H. Surridge. The seats up there look quite lonesome.”

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 May 1866, 7.