Bryants' Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Feb 1863, 7:30 PM
17 Feb 1863, 7:30 PM
18 Feb 1863, 7:30 PM
19 Feb 1863, 7:30 PM
20 Feb 1863, 7:30 PM
21 Feb 1863, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Rollin Howard;  G. A. Conners;  George W. Howard Griffin;  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  Master [minstrel] Burnside;  Neil Bryant;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  John H. Sivori;  Dan Bryant;  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  Sherwood C. Campbell
2)
Laughing gas
aka Dr. Colton's laughing gas
3)
Challenge dance
4)
Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan
5)
"Sally, come up"
aka Sally come up
Participants:  Dave [minstrel] Reed
6)
"Bryan O'Lynn"
aka Bryan O'Linn; Brian O'Lynn
7)
Blacksmith's jubilee
aka Blacksmith jubilee
8)
"Black Brigade, The"
aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett
9)
Grand scena Lucreezia Borgia
aka Lucrezia Borgia
Participants:  Rollin Howard (role: as Mad. Howard Fabbrico as Lucrezia Borgia)
10)
"Old Carolina extract"
aka South Carolina extract; Old Carlina extract
Participants:  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb
11)
Vocal quartet, unidentified
Participants:  Sherwood C. Campbell;  George W. Howard Griffin;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  Frank [minstrel] Leslie

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 February 1863.
“[T]heir performances are thus popular because pains are taken to vary them, and that each week novelties are introduced by Bryant’s.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 February 1863, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 February 1863, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 February 1863, 7.