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)
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.”

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