Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 August 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Apr 1869, Evening
20 Apr 1869, Evening
21 Apr 1869, Evening
22 Apr 1869, Evening
23 Apr 1869, Evening
24 Apr 1869, Evening

Program Details

Unclear if there was a performance on Wednesday (04/22/69), as Neil Bryant took a benefit at the Academy of Music that evening and some of Bryants’ minstrels were on hand to perform in it.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  G. W. Rockefeller;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene
2)
Red hot, [burlesque opera]
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Jupiter);  Nelse Seymour (role: Cuipd);  G. W. Rockefeller (role: Orpheus);  James Unsworth (role: Pluto);  [minstrel singer] Eugene (role: Eurydice)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 April 1869.

“Last week of the present season.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 April 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 April 1869, 5.

Part of longer announcement that lists “last weeks” of various troupes and theaters throughout the city.

4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 24 April 1869, 23.

Almost impossible to read.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 24 April 1869, 22.

“The Bryants announce this as the last week of their present season in this city. They open in Baltimore, Md., on the 26th inst., for one week; go thence to Washington for one week, and return to their present quarters, to commence another season on May 10th. They have been doing a very good business the past two weeks, in fact the best of the season, and go away right in its height. This cannot very well be avoided, as they had made their arrangements to travel when business was slack. On their return, Dave Reed will appear with the party, besides two or three other first-class performers, with whom they are now negotitating. They talk of reducing their prices, which we think a good idea, for minstrel companies cannot expect to attract full houses at the same prices of admission as the theatres, when they have so much to contend with as now, in the way of a display of legs and blonde beauties.”