Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Price: $.75 orchestra; $.50 parquet; $.25 gallery

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 January 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jul 1869, Evening
05 Jul 1869, 2:30 PM
06 Jul 1869, Evening
07 Jul 1869, Evening
08 Jul 1869, Evening
09 Jul 1869, Evening
10 Jul 1869, Evening

Program Details

Matinee performance on Monday (07/05/69) specially given for the Fourth of July and billed as “Celebration Day.” Saturday matinee performance (07/10/69) is a “farewell benefit” to Little Mac.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  Frank Pell;  Ruey Hughes
2)
Donnybrook jig
aka Irish Donnybrook jig
Participants:  Little [minstrel] Mac

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1869, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 July 1869, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 July 1869, 12.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 July 1869, 7.

For Little Mac matinee benefit.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 July 1869, 111.
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 July 1869, 2.

For Little Mac matinee benefit.

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 July 1869, 118.

“Little Mac closed his engagement on the 10th, and has started to join his traveling minstrel troupe. He took a benefit on the afternoon of the 10th, and notwithstanding the weather was quite warm [sic], he had a pretty good turn out.”