Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Price: $.50; $.75 orchestra chair

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 May 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jan 1870, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Jocko, a mischievous monkey; Monkeyana; Monkey act; Little Mac as the monkey
3)
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
Participants:  Little [minstrel] Mac
4)
aka Two gendarmes, The; Ebony blondes; Britain’s blondes by Africa’s Blacks; Gens d'armes
5)
aka Stump oration; Any other man
Participants:  James Unsworth
6)
Composer(s): Fuller
Participants:  [minstrel singer] Eugene
7)
aka Shoo fly don't bother me; Shu fly don't bother me; Shew fly don’t bother me
Composer(s): Howard
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
8)
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Daniel)
9)
aka Under de gaslight; New York by gaslight burlesque; Gaslight from under

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 January 1870, 2.
2)
Review: New York Post, 04 January 1870, 2.

“There is a good deal of fun to be had just now at the Bryants’ popular place of amusement in Fourteenth street. The extravaganza of shu-shu-fli keeps the audience in a roar by its drolleries; but better than this, perhaps, is the Corner song of Mr. Unsworth, in which he depicts the political experiences of New York with a humorous fidelity that every one at once recognizes, and which does not fail to produce repeated encores. In the same strain is the caricature of ‘New York by Gaslight,’ which never fails to send one to bed with all the cobwebs thoroughly shaken from his ribs, and his moral nature raised and improved by a hearty laugh.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 08 January 1870, 319.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 January 1870, 326, col. 3.

“Little Mac has made quite a hit at Bryant’s Minstrel Hall by his monkey performances and his dance of the ‘Essence.’ In the former, he is one of the most amusing we know of, and in his acts with Dan Bryant keeps the audience screaming with laughter all the time it is playing. For his Essence dance he receives from three to four encores nightly. . R. H. Carroll appeared the past week, giving his dance on a marble slab and meeting with favor from the audience. The slab used by him is entirely different from that used by other parties. It consists of two pedestals, resting upon five legs, each about five feet apart but connected with a slab, so that Mr. Carroll first dances on that part of the slab covering one pedestal, then on the connecting portion and finishes on the other pedestal. It is a novel act and pleases.”