Event Type
Minstrel Show
Notes
Notes
Performers Listed:
- Juba
- Pell
- Valintine
Other Venue Info Available:
- proprietor/lessee
- surrounding performances at venue
- other (venue season)
Other Event Info Available:
- audience
- context
- description/review
- programme (general)
- reception
Other Troupe Info Available:
- troupe endorsement
- troupe history
- troupe moniker
Available Info About Individuals:
- Juba:
- biography
- description/review
- moniker
- performer endorsement
- Pell:
- description/review
- moniker
- performance history
- Valintine:
- description/review
Other Info Available:
- other (minstrelsy context – suggestion that "Ethiopian melodists have become almost a drug on the market”)
Note: All ‘Other Info’ Categories list information that can be found about each item in relation to this event and/or the writings surrounding it.
Event Details
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Troupe: Ethiopian Serenaders (1848-49)
Venue Type: Church
Location: Liverpool
County: Lancashire
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Theatre Royal, Williamson Square
Location: Liverpool
County: Lancashire
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Theatre Royal, Williamson Square
Date
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Date notes
<div class="noteheading">Performance Days Within Run:</div>
<ul class="notes">
<LI>Tuesday Evening (November 7) {"for the first time"}
<LI>Wednesday Evening (November 8)
<LI>Thursday Evening (November 9)
<LI>Friday Evening (November 10)
<LI>Saturday Evening (November 11)
</UL>
<ul class="notes">
<LI>dates tentative (based on the schedule of subsequent weeks in the run)
</UL>
<p class='noteEntry'><strong>Part of a longer run (Nov.-Dec., 1848) </strong></p>
<ul class="notes">
<LI>Tuesday Evening (November 7) {"for the first time"}
<LI>Wednesday Evening (November 8)
<LI>Thursday Evening (November 9)
<LI>Friday Evening (November 10)
<LI>Saturday Evening (November 11)
</UL>
<ul class="notes">
<LI>dates tentative (based on the schedule of subsequent weeks in the run)
</UL>
<p class='noteEntry'><strong>Part of a longer run (Nov.-Dec., 1848) </strong></p>
Casting
Event Program
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Title | Performed Person / Troupe | Notes | Type | |||
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Bibliographic Sources
- Liverpool Mercury November 10, 1848: 6: 5.Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:- Pell’s “troupe of negro melodists”
Troupe Size Given:- not listed
Performers Listed:- “Mr Pell”
- “Juba”
Days & Times Given:- “this week” (current)
Other Acts on Bill Listed:- none
Other Info in Record:- audience
(“large audiences”) - description/review
(“much has been written and said in their praise, but (in their line), they have not been overrated”) - programme (general)
(“Negro Melodies and Dances”) - reception
(“delighting large audiences”) - other: minstrelsy context
(“Although Ethiopian melodists have become almost a drug on the market, we imagine that Mr. Pell will create a ‘revival’ which will yield him a golden harvest”)
Era (London) November 5, 1848: 11: 4.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- “Pell’s Serenaders”
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- “Juba”
Days & Times Given:
- “Tuesday next”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- context: extended discussion of the status of drama in Liverpool
(“The legitimate drama in this town is doomed.”) - other: note that this is a correction of Oct. 29 listing
Liverpool Chronicle and General Advertiser November 4, 1848: 1: 1.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- "G.W. Peel’s [sic] Serenaders"
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Boz’s Juba"
- “G.W. Peel [sic]”
Days & Times Given:
- "Tuesday, November 7th, and every Evening during the week”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- performance time:
(“to commence at Eight o’clock”)
Liverpool Chronicle and General Advertiser November 4, 1848: 4: 5.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- "Pell’s Serenaders"
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Boz’s Juba”
- “Mr. G.W. Pell”
Days & Times Given:
- "first of a series of concerts, on Tuesday evening next”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- none
Liverpool Chronicle and General Advertiser November 11, 1848: 5: 1.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- "The Ethiopian Serenaders"
- "Mr. Pell’s troup [sic] of Serenaders"
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Juba"
- “Mr. Pell”
Days & Times Given:
- "during the present week”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- audience
- description/review
Liverpool Standard October 24, 1848: 5: 6.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- "G.W. Pell’s Celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders"
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Boz’s Juba"
- “Mr. Pell”
Days & Times Given:
- "shortly”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- programme (general)
Liverpool Journal November 4, 1848: 2: 6.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- “the ‘real’ Serenaders”
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Boz’s Juba”
Days & Times Given:
- "entering on Tuesday”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- none
Liverpool Mail November 11, 1848: 3: 2.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- "Pell’s Serenaders"
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Boz’s Juba”
- “Pell”
Days & Times Given:
- not specified
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- description/review
- programme (general)
- other (instrument description)
Albion (Liverpool) October 30, 1848: 2: 6.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- “G.W. Pell’s Celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders”
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Juba"
- “Mr. Pell”
Days & Times Given:
- "on the 7th of November, for the first time”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- programme (general)
Albion (Liverpool) November 13, 1848: 3: 2.
Performance Type Indicated:
- Minstrel Show
Troupe Name as Given:
- "The Serenaders"
Troupe Size Given:
- not listed
Performers Listed:
- "Pell"
- "Mr. Valentine"
- "Juba"
Days & Times Given:
- "last week"
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
- none
Other Info in Record:
- description/review
- programme (general)
- reception
Era (London) October 29, 1848: 11:3.
Info in Record:
- Performance Type Indicated: Minstrel Show
- Troupe Name: “Mr. Pell (the original “bones” of the original Ethiopian Serenaders) and his troupe of darkies”
- Performers Listed: “Mr. Pell”, “Juba”
- Days and Times: “first appearance on Monday next” **note: this (incorrect) date is corrected in a subsequent listing in this paper
- Venue Name: “Liverpool, Theatre Royal”
Era (London) November 12, 1848: 12:2.
Info in Record:
- Performance Type Indicated: Minstrel Show
- Troupe Name: “G. W. Pell and his very clever troop [sic] of darkies”
- Performers Listed: “Juba”, “G.W. Pell”
- Venue Name: “Liverpool, Theatre Royal”
- Program Info: “muscular heel, toe and joint performances”, “many new songs”
- Other: audience, description/review, reception