Charley White Company

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Conductor(s):
David Braham

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 August 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Sep 1866, Evening
25 Sep 1866, Evening
26 Sep 1866, Evening
27 Sep 1866, Evening
28 Sep 1866, Evening
29 Sep 1866, Evening
29 Sep 1866, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Charley White Company, corps de ballet;  Orchestra, unidentified;  Charley White Company;  Master Frank Ashton;  Nelse Seymour;  Josh Hart [actor, minstrel];  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  Millie Flora;  W. H. Ashton;  Fanny Forrest;  Johnny Thompson;  Frank Kerns
2)
Cat pot pie; or, The persecuted clown

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 24 September 1866, 4.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 September 1866, 198.

“Business continues good at the ‘White House.’”

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 29 September 1866, 200.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 September 1866, 7.

Lists members of the corps de ballet.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 06 October 1866, 206.

“A Variety of Performances were given at Charley White’s Hall last week. In addition to the regular burnt cork acts, W. H. Ashton and his two sons appeared in a variety of gymnastic performances…The rest of the evening’s entertainment consisted of the usual performances of the corps of Ethiopians and dancing. Charley White did not appear all last week, having met with an accident on Sept. 23d while out riding, he was thrown with great violence to the ground, and so badly bruised that he was laid up all the week.”