Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 April 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 May 1870, Evening
03 May 1870, Evening
04 May 1870, Evening
05 May 1870, Evening
06 May 1870, Evening
07 May 1870, Evening

Program Details

Monday marks the two hundredth performance of “Shoo fly.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Dan Bryant;  Little [minstrel] Mac
2)
"Shoo fly, don't bodder me"
aka Shoo fly don't bother me; Shu fly don't bother me; Shew fly don’t bother me
Composer(s): Howard
3)
"How is this for high, rocks?"
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 May 1870, 8.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 May 1870, 38.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 May 1870, 7.

“Dan Bryant, with a fanfare of minstrel trumpets, announces the two hundredth night of ‘Shoo Fly.’ There’s food for reflection for managers and critics. When Dan gave really excellent operatic burlesques the public did not respond to his endeavors, but he has caught them with a piece of the veriest nonsense that ever entered the human mind.”