San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 October 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Jan 1867, 7:45 PM
15 Jan 1867, 7:45 PM
16 Jan 1867, 7:45 PM
17 Jan 1867, 7:45 PM
18 Jan 1867, 7:45 PM
19 Jan 1867, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: San Francisco Minstrels; African ballet troupe; Billy Birch [minstrel]; David S. Wambold; William H. [minstrel] Bernard; Charley Backus

2)

Trouble at the Metropolitan Hotel

aka Troubles at the Metropolitan Hotel

3)

Adel Greasy and Norma on a lark

aka Norma and Greasy on a lark

4)

aka Polly Ann

Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]

5)

6)

Shadow pantomime

7)

Living photographs

aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits

8)

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

Participants: African ballet troupe

9)

Love’s rambles; or, Cupid's fall

aka Gambambles

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 January 1867.

2)

Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 January 1867, 5.

“The new programme of original novelties at this place of amusement this week has proved highly successful, and the ‘trouble’ draws crowded houses nightly. The African ballet troupe and the gorgeous Palace of Dew-Drops are alone worth the price of admission. The ‘Falling Cupids’ continue healthy in ‘Love’s Rambles’ and ‘Norma and Greasy on a lark’ are as lively as ever.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 January 1867.