Life in New York

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Title: 
Life in New York
Type: 
Play
Description: 

Continued title: "or, A Nigger's Courtship"

  • Characters: "Scipio Adolphus Cowslip, (A Musicianer Nigger)"; "Juba Snowball, (a post office Nigger,)"; "Ginger Blue, (a street-sweeping Nigger,)"; "Mr Brown, (a venerable Nigger)"; "Miss Dinah Fredocia Brown, (a fascinating Yaller Gal)"
  • contains several minstrel songs (e.g. Ginger Blue, De Light of Oder Days, Lubly Dinah, Ho Roley Boley, Aitchieo Dingo Dar, Zip Coon)
    (Sheffield Playbill)

    • Performance(s) listed of this act

    Performer(s) Troupe Event and Venue

    Parker
    Ring
    Robins (minstrel)
    Teasdale, Harvey
    Woolcott     		American Southern Minstrels Dramatic, 29 Mar. 1844 - 29 Mar. 1844
    Royal Amphitheatre/Royal Adelphi Theatre, Yorkshire: West Riding

    De Bar
    Murphy (Jumbo), J.
    Squashee     		SquasheeMurphy, J., The American JumboDe Bar Dramatic, 30 Oct. 1848 - 04 Nov. 1848
    Royal Standard Theatre, London (city-county)