Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 June 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
17 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
18 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
19 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
20 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
21 Nov 1868, 2:30 PM
21 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Nelse Seymour;  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  Ruey Hughes;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  Dan Bryant;  Eph Horn
2)
Sonnambula, La, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
aka Sonambula; Sonnambula Amina; S.o.n.n.a.m.b.u.l.a.; or, The supper, the sleeper, and the merry Swiss boy
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
4)
Taming a butterfly, [minstrel parody]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 November 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 November 1868, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 November 1868, 5.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 November 1868, 262, 2d col., middle.

“Bryants’ Minstrels announce the same attractive bill for this week that has been presented the past week to a succession of fair houses.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 21 November 1868, 263.