First Performance of the "Contrabands" of Georgetown College, 1861
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By December 1861, the word "contraband" had come to refer to enslaved people who had escaped to the Union Army.
For more information on the Georgetown "Contrabands", see Marcus Lustig, "Blacking Up the Ivory Tower: Blackface Minstrelsy in College Life at Georgetown" (B.A. Thesis, Georgetown University, 2019).
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First Performance
Of The
“Contrabands”
Of
Georgetown College.
Tuesday Evening, December 17, 1861, at 7 o’clock.
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Overture … Troupe
Opening Chorus, (Operatic) “
Fare-thee-well, Kitty Dear, … F. H. Gerdes.
Old Grey Mare, … J.P. McElroy.
Off for Baltimore … J.F. Mathews.
‘Way down Souf’, … H.S. Williamson’
Old Folks are Gone … C. Hein’
Darling Rosebel … J. Jones.
Anvil Chorus … Company
Part II
Hiring an Actor … Gerdes and McElroy
Quartette for violin, guitar, and fluthes, “Agathe.”
Jones, Hein, Major, and Mathews
Old Bob Ridley … McElroy
Stocks up, and Stocks down Closs and Williamson
Dat’s what’s de matter … Gerdes
Burlesque Grinders … Company
Banjo Solo … Hein
Intermission for Change of Dress
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Part III
Gimlet.
Dunce of Penmark.
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Funniman, King of Trumps … C.T. Close
Gimlet, Dunce of Penmark, a green young man, addicted to black eyes, blue devils and blue rain, and who “hasn’t nary red,” … J.P. McElroy
Leatherlungs, the royal favorite barrow-tone; a specimen of Young America, bound for Nicaragua,
… F.H. Gerdes
Voracio } {H.C. Williamson
Rosinosi } Chums-in-Chief to the Dunce { J.F. Mathews
Raggedstein } { J. Jones
Count Dandini, a “demnition swell, you know.” H. Major
Ghost, … C. Hein
Courtiers, Gymnasts, Dancers, Supes, &c., by the Corps de Ballet
The entire piece, including songs, choruses, dances, tableaux, &c., written, stolen, and arranged with rhyme and without reason, by a gentleman of well-known abilities, A. Steele Penne, Esq.