Event Type
Vocal Entertainment
Event Details
Troupe: Sinclair, Charles
Venue Type: Lecture Hall
Location: Portsmouth
County: Hampshire
Type: Vocal Entertainment
Venue: Society’s Beneficial Room
Location: Portsmouth
County: Hampshire
Type: Vocal Entertainment
Venue: Society’s Beneficial Room
Date
-
Date notes
Wednesday evening
Casting
Event Program
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2
Title | Performed Person / Troupe | Notes | Type | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dandy Broadway Swell | Sinclair | CharlesSinclair | 6th song in Part 1 of Concert | Song |
Bibliographic Sources
- Portsmouth Central Library, Historical Collections Playbill (Society Room) - March 5, 1851:Info in Record:
- Performance Type: Specialty Entertainment (Variety, but only one performer)
- Performers Listed: “Mr. Charles Sinclair”
- Days & Times: “Wednesday Evening next, March the 5th, 1851”
- Venue Name: “the Society’s Beneficial Room, Kent Street, Portsea”
- Program Info: “Novel Entertainments, comprising Vocal & Instrumental Music, Together With Ventriloquism, American and Other Anecdotes, and will on this occasion introduce his Aerial Flutina”. Programme of songs includes several pieces not clearly connected to race/minstrelsy (see attached document scan), plus “Song – ‘Dandy Broadway Swell’” (6th song in Part 1).
- Other: audience, description/review, performance time, ticket info, other (detachable ticket of admission, mention of success of Sinclair’s previous entertainment)