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Buckley's Serenaders was an American blackface minstrel troupe, headed by James Buckley. They were an influential troupe in the United States; while they toured England from 1846 to 1848, their absence allowed Edwin Christy's troupe to gain popularity and influence the development of the minstrel genre.〔Mahar 22.〕 Back in the States, the Buckleys became one of the two most popular companies from the mid-1850s to the 1860s (the other being the Christy and Wood Minstrels).〔Lawrence 95–6.〕 By the 1853–4 season, the Buckleys began to burlesque popular operas and boasted of their ability to reproduce such works.〔Mahar 34–5.〕 Some of these were ''Cinderella'', ''La Sonnambula'', and ''Don(e) Juan; or, A Ghost on a High horse (Don Giovanni)''.〔Lawrence 95.〕 Another popular act involved Bishop Buckley's trained horse, Mazeppa. G. Swaine Buckley was another member of the company.〔Lawrence 190.〕 == Overview == In 1853, they leased a New York City theatre at 539 Broadway, a hall they called Buckley's Opera House, the Ethiopian Opera House, and the American Opera House.〔Henderson 93.〕 In 1856, they moved to 585 Broadway. By 1857, they were spending as much as six months there between tours. They also gave regular Sunday-evening concerts in whiteface at this location. However, like other minstrel companies, the Buckleys toured extensively. Upon their return to New York after a late 1857 tour, they published this advertisement: :Although we look ragged and black are our faces. ::As free and as fair as the best we are found; :And our hearts are as white as those in fine places, ::Although we're poor niggers dat travel around.〔Quoted in Lawrence 96.〕 Charles Dickens wrote of the Buckleys during an 1861 trip to the United States: Wilkie and I . . . went to the Buckley's last night. They do the most preposterous things, in the way of Violin Solos, Deeply Sentimental Songs, and Lucrezia Borgia music, sung by a majestic female in black velvet and jewels ''with a blackened face!'' All that part of it, is intolerably bad. But the real Nigger things are very good; and there is one man—the tambourine—who attempts to do things with chairs, in remembrance of an acrobat he has seen, which is the most genuinely ludicrous thing of its kind, I ever beheld. Nor have I ever seen so good a presentation as his, of the real Negro.〔2 January 1861. Letter from Charles Dickens to Georgina Hogarth. Reprinted in Dickens 359. Emphasis in original.〕 The troupe roster stayed relatively consistent until 1855, with only non-members of the Buckley family coming or going.〔Mahar 35.〕 The Buckleys closed the Opera House when the Concert Saloon Bill of 1862 forbade the combination of stage entertainment, female waitresses and sale of alcohol and in New York theaters and saloons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buckley's Serenaders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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