Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Bryants’ Minstrel Hall (E. 14th St.)

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 April 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Mar 1869, Evening
02 Mar 1869, Evening
03 Mar 1869, Evening
04 Mar 1869, Evening
05 Mar 1869, Evening
06 Mar 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; [minstrel] Dickson; Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour; William P. Grier [minstrel]; Fred [minstrel] Boniface; John P. Hogan [minstrel]; Ruey Hughes; G. W. Rockefeller; James Unsworth; [minstrel singer] Eugene

2)

Shylock; or, The Jew of Chatham Street

aka Trial scene of Shylock; Shylock, the merchant of Chatham Street

3)

Gendarmes, The

aka Two gendarmes, The; Ebony blondes; Britain’s blondes by Africa’s Blacks; Gens d'armes

Participants: Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour

4)

Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]

aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock

5)

Gendarmes, The

aka Two gendarmes, The; Ebony blondes; Britain’s blondes by Africa’s Blacks; Gens d'armes

6)

Black chemist, The

Text Author: White

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-York Times, 28 February 1869, 4.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 March 1869, 9.

3)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 02 March 1869, 5.

“Bryant’s [sic] Minstrel Hall ought to be crowded every night. When we consider how various and how excellent the entertainment is that is there given, we are astonished that a vacant seat should ever be found in the house. Lately Mr. Bryant has revived his amusing burlesque of ‘Shylock,’ and this is given nightly, together with a great number of new [illeg.] acts of minstrelsy. The gens d’armes [sic], by Bryant and Seymour, are particularly humorous.”