Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 October 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Oct 1869, Evening
05 Oct 1869, Evening
06 Oct 1869, Evening
07 Oct 1869, Evening
08 Oct 1869, Evening
09 Oct 1869, Evening

Program Details

Eugene’s imitations included impersonations of Euphrosyne Parepa and Maria Bonfanti.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Participants:  Dan Bryant
3)
aka Shoo fly don't bother me; Shu fly don't bother me; Shew fly don’t bother me
Composer(s): Howard
4)
aka Ole Bull in a fix
6)
aka Impersonations
Participants:  [minstrel singer] Eugene

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 October 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 09 October 1869, 215.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 October 1869, 222, 4th col..

“The two minstrel companies at present performing in this city are doing the best business of any place of amusement here. The San Francisco and Bryants’ have both been well filled during the past two weeks, and on many occasions there has not been standing room at either place… [Comments on the San Francisco Minstrels] The programme presented by Bryants’ Minstrels has been replete with pleasing songs, well sung by the quartet, and comic songs by the two enders, Dan Bryant and Unsworth. In the olio, Eugene, who, in his specialties, has no living superior, gave imitations of Parepa Rosa, while Dan Bryant convulses his audience with laughter by his black statues. The departure of the blondes has left the burlesque and negro business to the minstrel boys, and the public are largely patronizing them.”