Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 February 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Feb 1868, Evening
10 Feb 1868, Evening
08 Feb 1869, Evening
11 Feb 1869, Evening
11 Feb 1869, 2:30 PM
12 Feb 1869, Evening
13 Feb 1869, Evening

Program Details

Benefit for Seymour, Thursday afternoon, Feb. 11.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  William P. Grier [minstrel];  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  Ruey Hughes;  G. W. Rockefeller;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  Raphael de Solla;  Eugene [tenor] St. Clair
2)
Much ado about nothing, [minstrel sketch]
aka Much ado about noffin
3)
Jeemes the poet
aka Jeems the poet
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan
4)
Challenge dance
5)
Genevieve de Bryant
6)
After dark, [burlesque]
aka After dark's
7)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on; Timpanion

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 February 1869, 11.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 February 1869, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 13 February 1869, 359.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 13 February 1869, 358, 2d col., top.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 February 1869, 366, 2nd col., top.

“Nelse Seymour had a crowded house at his benefit on the afternoon of the 11th inst., at Bryants’ Minstrel Hall. He was presented on the stage by Henry Dobson with one of his handsome, patent banjos, heavily silver mounted, and valued at $60. He was also the recipient of a large bouquet from his intended.”