Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 May 1870, Evening
24 May 1870, Evening
25 May 1870, Evening
26 May 1870, Evening
27 May 1870, Evening
28 May 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant
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)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
4)
Daniel in the Bryant's den

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 May 1870, 8.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 May 1870, 10.

“This is the last week but of one of the season.”

3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 June 1870, 70.

“…Although the business has not been great the past few weeks with this company, or any other in the city, they nevertheless have had a succession of fair houses, and, taken on the whole, the season has been a most profitable one. The song and dance of ‘Shoo Fly’ at once made a hit, and has probably had as much to do with the continued good business as any done by the Bryants for a long time…”