Theater playbill for George Christy's Minstrels at Odd Fellow's Hall, Washington, DC, November 19, 1860
Contributors: George Christy's Minstrels; Odd Fellow's Hall (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Publisher not identified
Published: 1860
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Other titles: First night of the brief season of Geo. Christy's Minstrels
Description: Odd Fellow's Hall! First night of the brief season of Geo. Christy's Minstrels. Under the immediate personal supervision of Geo. Christy! Whose experience of over eighteen years in the profession, and performances for the last twelve years in the City of New York, before the elite of that great metropolis, are a guarantee for the excellence of the entertainment he submits for public approval. He and his mammoth company will appear at the above named hall for a short season only. The best seats reserved for ladies & ladies accompanied by gentlemen. Monday evening, Nov'ber 19th, '60 ...
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

Cast: Great contest for the championship of the world: John C. Heenan: George Christy, Thomas Sayers: W. Arlington, John McDonald, Heenan's Second / Add. Weaver -- Sayers' Second / Thomas Dillford -- Dowlin , the Refereee: Mast. Gus. Howard, Specators, Lords, Dukes, Count and No Accounts, and Roughs: Company.

LC copy rehoused: 2014-10-02. Shelved in Oversize.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Programme. Part first: Overture / Troupe; title: Opening Chorus / Company; title: Let me Kiss him for his Mother / Edward Kelly; title: Boy with the Auburn Hair / George Christy; title: Gentle Nelly Gray (new version) / J.H. Hilton; title: Grocery Merchant / W. Arlington; title: Vive L'America / Sig. R. Abecco; title: Finale / Company; title: Part second. Pas de Fascination / Mast. Leon; title: Ballad / Edward Kelly; title: Terpsichorean Display / Mast. Barney; title: The African giant twelve feet high, the largest man in the world!; title: Comic Polka / Add Weaver & Mast. Leon; title: Harp solo / Sig. R. Abecco; title: Granny Heath & her son Bobby Stubbs (original) / George Christy; title: banjo solo / W. Arlington; title: The Young Scamp / Add Weaver and his boy, Barney; title: Boehm flute solo / R. Haslem; title: Essence of Old Virginia / W. Arlington. Old Sexton / W. Cross; title: Tamborine solo / Mast. Howard; title: Part third: Great Contest for the championship of the world ... the whole to conclude with Away Down South! in which the entire company will appear.