Bryants’ Minstrels

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; William P. Grier [minstrel]; John P. Hogan [minstrel]; Ruey Hughes; G. W. Rockefeller; James Unsworth; [minstrel singer] Eugene; Raphael de [infant tenor] Solla; Eugene [tenor] St. Clair; Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour

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

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 February 1869, 11.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 February 1869, 7.

3)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 13 February 1869, 358, 2d col., top.

4)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 13 February 1869, 359.

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 11^th 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.”