Wood's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Oct 1862, 7:30 PM
14 Oct 1862, 7:30 PM
15 Oct 1862, 7:30 PM
16 Oct 1862, 7:30 PM
17 Oct 1862, 7:30 PM
18 Oct 1862, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels;  R. C. B. Isaacs;  H. Schwicardi;  Edward [minstrel] Haslam;  E. H. Florence;  Raffaelle Abecco;  Charles Henry [minstrel tenor];  Henry Percy;  James W. [minstrel] Glenn;  P. B. Isaacs;  Eph Horn;  J. Leis;  Charley [minstrel] Fox;  M. Lewis [minstrel];  Frank Brower;  James Garatagua;  Cool White [minstrel]
2)
"Deserted miner, The"
3)
Blacksmith's jubilee
aka Blacksmith jubilee
4)
Othello, [burlesque]
aka Dar’s de money
5)
"Jealous musician, The"
aka Jealous musicians
6)
Broadway belle, The
7)
"Four vultures, The"
8)
Our African cousins
aka African cousins
9)
"Bird hunters, The"

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 13 October 1862, 2.
“The minstrels – Wood’s, Christy’s, and Bryant’s . . . are crowded nightly to repletion. This is the best paying branch of theatrical business just now.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 October 1862, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 18 October 1862.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 October 1862.
“Wood’s Minstrels . . . are deservedly popular, and their hall has so many recommendations as a place of public resort, in any kind of weather, that we need not wonder at the crowds nightly on hand ‘for a sure thing’ with twenty-five cents.”