Charley White’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Jan 1867, Evening
08 Jan 1867, Evening
09 Jan 1867, Evening
10 Jan 1867, Evening
11 Jan 1867, Evening
12 Jan 1867, Evening

Program Details

"First appearance of Miss Emma Fowler."

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Charley White Company;  Josh Hart [actor, minstrel];  Laura le [dancer] Claire;  Emma Fowler
2)
Evening star, The
3)
Freedman’s academy
aka Colored academy
4)
Victim, The
Participants:  Josh Hart [actor, minstrel] (role: Jerry Clip);  Laura le [dancer] Claire (role: Jane)
5)
Zouave drill
aka Lightening Zouave drill
6)
Truant father, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 January 1867, 2.
2)
Advertisement: New York Sun, 09 January 1867.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 12 January 1867, 4.

“At Mechanics’ Hall last evening a large and enthusiastic audience assembled to witness the varied and pleasing entertainment offered by Charley White’s excellent troupe. Burlettas, songs and dances of no mean order filled the programme, which was concluded by the well known protean piece The Victim, in which Josh Hart, as Jerry Clip, and Miss Laura LeClair, as the mischief-loving Jane appeared to good advantage.”