Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 July 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
21 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
22 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
23 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
24 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM
25 Apr 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Bryants’ Minstrels

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Exempt Shaking Quakers; Exempt Shakers from Lebanon Town; Lebanon Shakers, The ; Shaking Quakers
3)
aka Perfect cure
4)
aka Grand scene Norma
Participants:  Rollin Howard
5)
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Javert);  George W. Howard Griffin (role: Jean Valjean)
6)
aka Sally come up
8)
aka Jeems the poet
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Fanny Jim);  Dave [minstrel] Reed (role: Slim Jim)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 April 1863, 7.

 

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 25 April 1863, 11.

“They run a fast team at this house, and the show is over in ample time for all good and virtuous people to be in their beds at a reasonable hour.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 April 1863, 7.