“Amusements. Musical. Bryant’s Minstrels. The tide of happy people that flows out of ‘Tammany’ every evening, filling Fourteenth-street, between the Third and Fourth avenues, is the broad and general fact that bespeaks the taste of the community for the varied programmes which make this new hall a popular resort. No weather, warm or wet, seems to diminish the delight of multitudes to throng this scene of colored minstrelsy. The burlesques are neat and laughable, without being coarse, and much of the solo singing might create envy in places of higher musical ambition. The whole management is such as to secure an excellent as well as a large class of auditors.”

“Burlesque opera flourishes finely at Bryants’ Fourteenth street Opera House. All the burnt cork artists of the troupe engaged here are admirably qualified to support the mirth-provoking Eugene in his wonderful burlesque of ‘Il Trovatore.’”