Niblo’s Garden: Dan Bryant Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Sep 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Dan Bryant; Rose Eytinge; Josephine [actress] Fiddes; Dominick [actor, playwright] Murray

2)

Handy Andy, [minstrel]

3)

Arrah na pogue, [burlesque]

aka Arrah na brogue

4)

Songs, unidentified

aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists

Composer(s): Unknown composer

5)

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 01 September 1869, 8.

“Mr. Dan Bryant’s friends will have an opportunity, on Friday evening, to rally round the Green Flag of that comedian. Mr. Bryant takes his benefit then, and appears in ‘Handy Andy,’ as well as ‘Arrah-na-Pogue.’”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 September 1869, 12.

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 September 1869, 6.

4)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 September 1869, 174.

Brief.