Event Type
Minstrel Show
Event Details
Venue Type: Hotel
Location: Stamford
County: Huntingdonshire
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Stamford Hotel
Location: Stamford
County: Huntingdonshire
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Stamford Hotel
Date
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Date notes
dates uncertain
Event Program
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| Title | Performed Person / Troupe | Notes | Type | |||
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Bibliographic Sources
- Era (London) December 14, 1851: 12:3.Info in Record:
- Performance Type: Dramatic
- Troupe Name: “The (Original) Ethiopians”; “A party calling themselves […] the celebrated and original Ethiopian Serenaders from the St. James’s”.
- Performers Listed: “‘Pell, White, Stanwood, and Germon’”
- Days & Times: “have recently given two entertainments”
- Venue Name: “the banqueting-room of the Stamford Hotel”
- Other: audience, other (notice that the ‘serenaders’ didn’t pay the bills they had accumulated in relation to the performance, and that they booked a subsequent performance in Thrapstone, but didn’t show.)
- Era (London) December 21, 1851: 12:2.Info in Record:
- A letter from G.W. Pell, denouncing the individuals who recently advertised themselves as the “Original Ethiopians” as imposters.