San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 December 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Apr 1867, Evening
09 Apr 1867, Evening
10 Apr 1867, Evening
11 Apr 1867, Evening
12 Apr 1867, Evening
13 Apr 1867, Evening

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;  Charley Backus
2)
Trouble at the Metropolitan Hotel
aka Troubles at the Metropolitan Hotel
3)
Living photographs
aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits
4)
Red pepper, taken from the Castor Diva
5)
"My Polly Ann"
aka Polly Ann
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
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
Participants:  African ballet troupe
7)
Shadow pantomime

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 April 1867, 1.

“[N]ew and cheerful burlesques every week. . . . Shouts of Laughter at the Shadow Pantomime and the Screaming Black Crook and African Ballet Troupe; Grand March of the Spirit Hashirs of the Amazon.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 13 April 1867, 8.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 April 1867, 6, 3d col., middle.

“New and cheerful burlesques are announced by the San Francisco Minstrels this week, but on looking over their programme we see the ‘Shadow Pantomime,’ Black Crook’ and ‘Imitations of Actors,’ all of which have been given for a long time. But as long as old acts and sketches attract such crowded houses, as has been the case for many weeks, the managers are no doubt satisfied without producing anything new.”