Bryants' Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
06 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
07 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
08 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
09 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
10 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  James Morrison;  Master [minstrel] Burnside;  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb;  George W. [minstrel] Charles;  G. A. Conners;  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  John H. Sivori;  Dan Bryant;  Tommy Dobbs;  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  Nelse Seymour;  Neil Bryant;  George W. Howard Griffin;  Rollin Howard;  Sherwood C. Campbell
2)
Hunting a prima donna
Composer(s): Unidentified
Participants:  Rollin Howard (role: Miss Stronglungs);  George W. Howard Griffin (role: Manager)
3)
Wake up, William Henry
aka Wake up William Henry
Text Author: White
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: William Henry);  Nelse Seymour (role: Old Sage)
4)
Scenes of boyhood
Participants:  Tommy Dobbs;  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 January 1863, 7.
“Ballads and choruses.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 January 1863, 7.
“Tommy Dobbs, the Juvenile Artist.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 January 1863, 7.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 12 January 1863, 3.
“Bryant’s, having offered a most attractive programme the last week, were crowded nightly to overflowing. In fact, this has been the case so long that it is hardly necessary to mention the matter.”