Event Information

Venue(s):
Bryant's Opera House (W. 23d St.)

Conductor(s):
Charles Steele

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM
19 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM
20 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM
21 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM
22 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM
23 Nov 1872, 2:00 PM
23 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  African ballet troupe;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  William H. Brockway;  B. Little Morrisey;  Harry [minstrel tenor] Norman;  Charles [minstrel baritone] D'Alberte;  Fred [minstrel] Emerson;  Karl [cellist] Steele
2)
"Nil desperandum"
Composer(s): Inch
Text Author: Inch
Participants:  Charles [minstrel baritone] D'Alberte
3)
"Buzz away musketo"
aka Buzz away mosquito; Buzzing musketo; Buzz away musketer
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Dave [minstrel] Reed
4)
"Little robin, tell Kitty I’m coming"
Composer(s): Persley
Text Author: Howard
Participants:  Harry [minstrel tenor] Norman
5)
Live ingin, The
aka Live injun
6)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
Participants:  Nelse Seymour
7)
Clodoche cancan
aka Cancan quadrille à la Clodoche; Clodoche can can
Composer(s): Unknown composer
8)
Buffalo Bill, [burlesque]
Participants:  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  William H. Brockway
9)
"Whar’s number 6?"
aka Where's number 6?; Where is number 6?; Whar's number six?
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour
10)
King Karrot; or, Red monkey shines
Text Author: Bryant
11)
"When the band begins to play"
Composer(s): Hunt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 November 1872, 4.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 November 1872, 278.