The production was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Burnett, Bova, Gilford, and White from the original Broadway cast, as well as new principals Bill Hayes as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis as Lady Larken and Elliott Gould as the Jester.

Instead of the Minstrel and Jester finding out the test from the Wizard, the King hides in a suit of armor and overhears the Queen and the Wizard, and when the Jester, Larken and Harry all collaborate to find out, the King pops out of the suit of armor.

The King, the Minstrel and the Jester catch Larken trying to run away, and they try to stop her but in the end decide to help her escape to " Normandy ".

Later that night, the Queen leads the knights and ladies as they carry the twenty mattresses to Fred's room (" Quiet "), and she catches the Minstrel, the Jester, the King, and Larken ( disguised in Dauntless ' clothes ) running away.

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

*" The Palace of Minstrel " sung and danced by a minstrel chorus

The heroic exploits of Wallace were passed on to posterity mainly in the form of tales collected and recounted by the poet Blind Harry, the Minstrel (?- 1492 ) whose original, probably oral sources were never specified.

These pirated performances took many forms, including burlesques, productions with men playing women's roles and vice-versa, spoofs, variety acts, Minstrel show versions, all-black and Catholic productions, German, Yiddish and other foreign-language versions, performances on boats or by church choirs, and productions starring casts of children.

Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming Uncle Tom from Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery.

Champion racehorses trained by Vincent O ' Brien on the flat include Nijinsky II, Sir Ivor, Ballymoss, Alleged, The Minstrel and El Gran Senor.

* Cantus the Minstrel ( performed by Jim Henson )-Cantus and the Minstrels continually travel to different parts of the cave, and stop several times at Fraggle Rock.

** Brio the Minstrel ( performed by Terry Angus )-A Fraggle who is one of the Minstrels following Cantus.

* Brool the Minstrel ( performed by Tim Gosley )-Brool is an unspecified creature who is one of the five Minstrels.

* Murray the Minstrel ( performed by Steve Whitmire in all other episodes, Gord Robertson in " The Honk of Honks ")-An unspecified creature who is one of the five Minstrels and " second in command " to Cantus, plays a guitar.

North American stand-up comedy has its roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century including vaudeville, English Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as Mark Twain and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics.

A review for the 1944 Joseph Lewis film Minstrel Man stated " the music, scored by Ferde Grofé, is an outstanding item.

* Christopher Cross by Christopher Cross ‒ " Minstrel Gigolo " ( 1980 )

However, biographer David Rees reports in Minstrel in the Gallery that Anderson had never intended to replace the ' classic ' Tull lineup with the musicians who recorded A, but was forced by Chrysalis Records which had decided to release his ' solo ' album under the name Jethro Tull.

" Alternative Roots ", an episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, spoofed the popularity of The Black and White Minstrel Show, suggesting that any programme could double its viewing figures by being performed in blackface, and mentioning that a series of The Black and White Minstrel Show had been tried without make up.

The end result was a number that parodied The Black and White Minstrel Show by having the male performers in blackface while the females ( excluding Mrs. Slocombe ) were not.

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by The Minstrel

* The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore

Its sole riff was inspired by the Jethro Tull song " Minstrel in the Gallery ".

*" Minstrel Potpourri " performed by the Edison Minstrels ( possibly The Haydn Quartet )

The first singing telegram in the UK is said to have been performed by Mike Collins aka The wandering Minstrel who is still performing fully personalised songs to this day.

A Minstrel Greeting, A fully personalised song performed by A Wandering Minstrel, with a full band production audio CD or DVD music video.

The 1872 gubernatorial election resulted in a narrow victory for Minstrel Elisha Baxter over Brindle Tail Joseph Brooks in an election marked by fraud and intimidation.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

Two of his plays-But, However and the Wandering Minstrel were successful, whilst his early work Figaro in London was less successful.

In 1805, The Lay of the Last Minstrel captured wide public imagination, and his career as a writer was established in spectacular fashion.

At stud, she produced only two other foals, but one of these was Fleur who produced the 1977 Epsom Derby winner The Minstrel Nijinsky was a big, powerful horse standing 16. 3 hands high, resembling his dam rather than his sire in stature.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a popular British musical variety show that featured blackface performers, and remained on British television until 1978.

Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, ran away from home at age 12 to join Billy Kersand's Traveling Minstrel Show, then moved to New Orleans.

Thomas Moore ( 28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852 ) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show.

It failed badly, was cancelled after 10 episodes and The Black and White Minstrel Show returned to win back viewers.

In a 1973 episode of The Two Ronnies, a musical sketch, " The Short and Fat Minstrel Show ", was performed as a parody of The Black and White Minstrel Show, featuring spoofs of various songs.

" Minstrel humor was simple and relied heavily on slapstick and wordplay.

Minstrel instruments were also a mélange: African banjo and tambourine with European fiddle and bones In short, early minstrel music and dance was not true black culture ; it was a white reaction to it.

Minstrel dance was generally not held to the same mockery as other parts, although contemporaries such as Fanny Kemble argued that minstrel dances were merely a " faint, feeble, impotent — in a word, pale Northern reproductions of that ineffable black conception.

By the age of 15 she was touring the US South with the Leonard Harper Minstrel Stock Company.

# his poem of The Minstrel, of which the first book was published in 1771 and the second in 1774, and which constitutes his true title to remembrance, winning him the praise of Samuel Johnson.

George Mitchell, ( 27 February 1917 – 27 August 2002 ) was a Scottish musician, best known for having devised the long-running The Black and White Minstrel Show.

As a two-year-old Risen Star was lightly raced, winning the Minstrel Stakes at Louisiana Downs.

McCormack was occasionally referred to as the " Minstrel Boy ," ( or alternately the Irish Minstrel ) and this title has been applied to collections of his recordings.