Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
04 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
05 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
06 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
07 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
08 Nov 1873, 2:00 PM
08 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Hosmer
Text Author: Hosmer
3)
aka Bonny Jean
Composer(s): Miles
Text Author: Burns
4)
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Falconer
9)
aka Dr. Colton's laughing gas
10)
aka Examination day

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 November 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 November 1873, 9.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 November 1873, 262.

Unusual Exertions were made by Bryant’s Minstrels to please their patrons during the past week. Unsworth and Eugene, besides performing their specialties, did some excellent burlesque acting in the chief characters of ‘Medea.’ Dan Bryant and Nelse Seymour evoked much laughter in a comic bajo scene called ‘Will He Never Drop?’ Karl Steele performed a difficult solo up on the violoncello; the burlesque of ‘Dr. Colton’s Laughing Gas’ was revived; and the first part was freshened with ‘Home by the Sea,’ sung by J. W. Lamont; ‘Bonnie Jean,’ by W. Raymond; and ‘Killarney,’ by William Dwyer. Otherwise the programme remained unchanged.”