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Roberta's father Robert Sherwood was the manager of a traveling minstrel show; she and her sister Anne were raised on the road after their mother died.Roberta started performing in vaudeville at age 11, and the sisters soon became a vaudeville and nightclub act.
He was born in Monroe, Louisiana, to Frank, an old-time Dixieland bandleader, and Marcella. [2] Moreland began acting by the time he was an adolescent; some sources say he ran away to join a minstrel show in 1910, at age eight, [2] but his daughter told Moreland's biographer she doubts this date is correct. [3]
The theatre's inaugural event was held on April 12, 1967, with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association sponsoring the national cast production of Man of La Mancha, starring Richard Kiley and Joan Diener. [4]
The Exposition Park Rose Garden is a historic 7-acre (28,000 m 2) sunken garden located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California. It has been called "one of the city's best-kept secrets". [ 2 ] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The Ash Grove was a folk music club located at 8162 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California, United States, founded in 1958 by Ed Pearl and named after the Welsh folk song, "The Ash Grove." In its fifteen years of existence, the Ash Grove altered the music scene in Los Angeles and helped many artists find a West Coast audience.
Billy B. Van (born William Webster Van de Grift; August 3, 1870 – November 16, 1950) was a prominent American entertainer in the early decades of the 1900s.He was a star, progressively, in minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the New York stage, and movies.
Charles Barney Hicks (died 1902) was an American advance man, manager, performer, and owner of blackface minstrel troupes composed of African-American performers. Hicks himself was a minstrel performer who could sing and play challenging roles such as the minstrel-show interlocutor or endmen. However, he was most interested in the business side ...
The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, [5] but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo was long-necked and four-stringed, though a fifth was added by 1844.