Bryants’ Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
18 July 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
04 May 1863, 8:00 PM05 May 1863, 8:00 PM
06 May 1863, 8:00 PM
07 May 1863, 8:00 PM
08 May 1863, 8:00 PM
09 May 1863, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: John H. Sivori; Dan Bryant; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Sherwood C. Campbell; G. A. Conners; Rollin Howard; W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb; George W. Howard Griffin; Master [minstrel] Burnside; Daniel Decatur Emmett; James Morrison; Neil Bryant; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed
2)
aka Tin panonion;
Tin-pan-on-ion;
Tinpanonion;
Tin pan onion;
Tin Pano-ni-on;
Tin-pan-o-ni-on
6)
aka Exempt Shaking Quakers;
Exempt Shakers from Lebanon Town;
Lebanon Shakers, The ;
Shaking Quakers
12)
Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Handy Andy); George W. Howard Griffin (role: Mr. Puffy)
Citations
1)
“Dan Bryant’s new Song . . . O, I’d be a Soger Boy.”
2)
“There’s to be a ‘Row at Lannigan’s [sic] Ball’ this week, at Bryant’s, and there will be a large attendance to see the ‘Row.’”
3)
Unrelated to this show, but important nonetheless. “By the way, the New Bowery adopts the Bryant Minstrel plan of reserving the front part of the parquet for those who have ladies with them. Why cannot the patrons of the reserved seat system shirk the speculators, and do likewise?”