San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Dec 1866, 7:45 PM
04 Dec 1866, 7:45 PM
05 Dec 1866, 7:45 PM
06 Dec 1866, 7:45 PM
07 Dec 1866, 7:45 PM
08 Dec 1866, 7:45 PM

Program Details

First appearance of W.P. Grier.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  African ballet troupe;  William P. Grier [minstrel];  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus
2)
Meteoric showers; or, Falling stars
3)
Trouble at the Metropolitan Hotel
aka Troubles at the Metropolitan Hotel
4)
Two members of the legislature from Massachusetts
5)
Norma, [burlesque]
aka Grand scene Norma
6)
Black cook, The, [COOK--no R; this is the ballet, not the play at Niblo's!]
aka Greasy black cook; Screaming black cook, The; Screaming black crook; Little crooks
7)
Healthy shadows
8)
Imitations
aka Impersonations
Participants:  Charley Backus

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 December 1866, 1.

“The trouble commences at a quarter to 8.”

2)
Review: New York Herald, 06 December 1866, 10.

“This famous troupe continue to draw crowded houses nightly.  The bill, from the opening overture to the finale of ‘Healthy Shadows’ is unexceptionable, and in the awkwardness of Birch, the imitations of Backus, the grandiloquence of Wambold and the strains of Wambold combined in one entertainment, there is a sure antidote for spleen, melancholy or hypochondria.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 08 December 1866, 280.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 December 1866, 278.