Bryants' Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 October 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 May 1869, Evening
01 Jun 1869, Evening
02 Jun 1869, Evening
03 Jun 1869, Evening
04 Jun 1869, Evening
05 Jun 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Ruey Hughes; G. W. Rockefeller; James Unsworth; William [minstrel tenor] Dwyer; Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour; William P. Grier [minstrel]; Dave [minstrel] Reed; John P. Hogan [minstrel]; Monroe Dempster [minstrel tenor]

2)

Challenge dance

Participants: Dan Bryant; Dave [minstrel] Reed

3)

Remarks about Cuba

Participants: James Unsworth

4)

Participants: Nelse Seymour

5)

Gendarmes, The

aka Two gendarmes, The; Ebony blondes; Britain’s blondes by Africa’s Blacks; Gens d'armes

6)

Red hot, [burlesque opera]

Text Author: Brougham

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 May 1869, 12.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 31 May 1869, 7.

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 05 June 1869, 71.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 12 June 1869, 78.

“The Bryants’ Minstrels are enjoying a succession of good audiences at their hall in Fourteenth street. During the past week Dan Bryant was off duty for three nights, as business called him to Canada, and his end was occupied by Dave Reid [sic].”