Bryants' Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Manager / Director:
Dan Bryant
Neil Bryant

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 September 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
17 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
18 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
19 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
20 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM
21 Mar 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  John H. Sivori;  Dan Bryant;  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  Sherwood C. Campbell;  Rollin Howard;  G. A. Conners;  George W. Howard Griffin;  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  Master [minstrel] Burnside;  Neil Bryant;  James Morrison;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
2)
Vulcan at the forge
3)
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
4)
"Barbara Allen"
aka Barbary Allen; Barb'ry Allen; Barbara Ellen
5)
"Sally, come up"
aka Sally come up
6)
Challenge dance
7)
Essence of Little Mac
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
8)
Scenes of boyhood
9)
Laughing gas
aka Dr. Colton's laughing gas
10)
"Measure for measure [minstrel]"
11)
Echo, The, [minstrel]
12)
"Greenbacks!"
aka Greenbacks; Green-backs; Greenbacks! : new song for the times; How are you, greenbacks?; How are you greenbacks; How are you, green-backs;
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 March 1863, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 March 1863, 7.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 28 March 1863, 395.
“The Bryant’s are on the high road to fortune and a brownstone on avenue V, their hall being crowded every night.”