San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
08 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
09 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
10 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
11 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM
12 Oct 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The Haunted House: introducing the ‘Great London Illusion’ [perhaps joke on the ‘transformation scene’ in Black Crook, borrowed or purchased from a London Theatre].

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard
2)
Haunted house, The, [sketch]
aka Echo
3)
Africaine, L’; or, Camrinus's opera of lager beer, [burlesque]
aka Gambrino's opera of lager beer; Gambrinus's opera of lager beer
4)
Talent on a bust
5)
Black Othello

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 07 October 1867, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 October 1867.

“The ‘Haunted House, introducing the Great London Illusion ‘How it is Done,’ the most wonderful and laughable illusion ever produced in this country.”