Real Dictionary

minstrel show in American English
a comic variety show presented by a company of performers in blackface
noun: a popular stage entertainment featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors, traditionally comprising two end men and a chorus in blackface and an interlocutor: developed in the U.S. in the

minstrel show in British English
noun: a former theatrical entertainment consisting of songs, dances, comic turns, etc, typically performed by a troupe of White actors wearing black face make-up