Event Type
Minstrel Show
Event Details
- Troupe: American Serenaders (1850)
Venue Type: Lecture Hall
Location: Sheffield
County: Yorkshire: West Riding
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute
Location: Sheffield
County: Yorkshire: West Riding
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute
Date
-
Date notes
all evenings except Tuesday, April 9
Casting
Event Program
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Bibliographic Sources
- Sheffield Times April 6, 1850: 1: 5.Performance Type Indicated: Minstrel Show Troupe Name as Given: “the best Company of American Serenaders ever in Europe or America” Performers Listed: “Juba” Days & Times Given: “The Last Six Nights in Sheffield” “This Evening (Saturday), April 6; Monday, April 8th; Wednesday, April 10th; Thursday, April 11th; Friday, April 12th; and Saturday, April 13th, 1850” Other Acts on Bill Listed: none Other Info in Record: audience benefit (April 8: Juba) performance time programme (general) ticket info other (note about programme distribution)
- Sheffield Times April 6, 1850: 6: 3.Performance Type Indicated: Minstrel Show Troupe Name as Given: “ ‘Juba,’ with his company of serenaders” Performers Listed: “ ‘Juba’,” “Boz’s Juba” Days & Times Given: “arrangements have been made for his continuance in Sheffield a few days longer” Other Acts on Bill Listed: none Other Info in Record: none for this event
- Sheffield Times April 6, 1850: 1: 5 (2nd relevant ad).Performance Type Indicated: Minstrel Show Troupe Name as Given: not listed Performers Listed: “Master Juba” Days & Times Given: “Monday Evening, the 8th April” Other Acts on Bill Listed: none Other Info in Record: audience: ("under the patronage of Col. Arthur and the Officers of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, who will attend, together with a number of the most influential Families of Sheffield and its Vicinity."), benefit (April 8 – Juba. Also mentions that it is Juba's "first appeal to the Sheffield public"), performance time (“Performances to commence at Eight o’Clock”)
- Sheffield Times April 13, 1850: 8: 4.Performance Type Indicated: Minstrel Show Troupe Name as Given: "Boz’s Juba" "Juba and his co-adjutors" Troupe Size Given: not listed Performers Listed: "Boz’s Juba” Days & Times Given: "during the week” (past) "this evening” Other Acts on Bill Listed: None Other Info in Record: audience (“before select audiences”; “anticipate a large attendance this evening”) description/review (“…sufficient evidence of the superiority of the entertainment”) reception (“the interest he has excited and sustained for that length of time…”
- Sheffield Independent March 30, 1850: Referenced in University of Bristol, Barker Collection.Info in Record: Performance Type: Minstrel Show Performers Listed: Juba Days & Times: April 8-13 Venue Name: Athenaeum & Mechanics’ Institution (Sheffield) Other: benefit (April 8 – Juba)
- Sheffield Times and Rotherham & Worksop Advertiser April 6, 1850: 1:6.Info in Record: Performance Type: Minstrel Show Performers Listed: “Boz’s Juba” Venue Name: “The Athenaeum, Surrey Street” (Sheffield) Program Info: “his renowned Ethiopian Entertainments” Other: audience, ticket info, other (surrounding events at venue, venue description)

