Budworth’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
William S. Budworth
John Stohr

Price: $.75 reserved; .50 orchestra; .35 dress circle

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

Program Details

Only a part of the play, This House to be Sold, was performed.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Budworth’s Minstrels;   Rose [minstrel];  George W. Howard Griffin;  William S. Budworth;  Samuel D. Johnson;  James H. Budworth;  Fred Abbott [minstrel dancer];  Ruey Hughes
2)
Egyptian sphinx
Participants:  George W. Howard Griffin
3)
Camille, [burlesque]
aka African Camille
4)
"Norrible tale, A"
aka Horrible tale
Composer(s): Blanchard
Text Author: Blanchard
5)
This house to be sold
Text Author: Coyne
6)
"Solon Shingle," [song]
7)
Oh Hush! or, The Virginny cupids
Composer(s): White
Participants:  Ruey Hughes;   Rose [minstrel];  William S. Budworth;  Samuel D. Johnson;  James H. Budworth;  Fred Abbott [minstrel dancer]
8)
"Echoes from fatherland"
aka Echoes from Vaterland
Participants:  James H. Budworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 24 September 1866, 4.

“The company directed by Mr. Budworth draws crowded and very fashionable audiences to the new Fifth Avenue Opera House, where the costly enterprise undertaken by its organization only stimulates the management to the issue of very comprehensive bills of entertainment.” Lists some of the performers and program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 September 1866, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 September 1866.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 September 1866, 198.

“‘An Norrible Tale’ is to be told this week by Budworth’s Minstrels, at their Fifth Avenue Opera House, and though they advertise ‘This House to be Sold,’ it is only a part of the play.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 29 September 1866, 199.

Lists entire company: “J. H. Budworth, G. W. H. Griffen, F. Abbott, C. P. Hogan, M. Dempster, J. Garatagui, J. Morison, C. Blass, W. S. Budworth, C. Henry, W. W. Hodgkin, R. Hughes, W. P. Grier, J. Sivori, J. Clarendon, J. Dolan, and George and Willie Guy.”