Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
30 Jun 1863, 8:00 PM
01 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
02 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
03 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM
04 Jul 1863, 2:00 PM
04 Jul 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; John H. Sivori; Dan Bryant; Tommy Gettings; Sherwood C. Campbell; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Rollin Howard; George W. Howard Griffin; G. A. Conners; Daniel Decatur Emmett; W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb; Neil Bryant; Master [minstrel] Burnside; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; James Morrison; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed

2)

Challenge dance

3)

"Sally, come up"

aka Sally come up

4)

Essence of Little Mac

aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia

5)

Blacksmith's jubilee

aka Blacksmith jubilee

6)

Norma, [burlesque]

aka Grand scene Norma

Participants: Rollin Howard

7)

"That's what's the matter"

aka Dat's what's de matter

Composer(s): Foster

8)

Jeemes the poet

aka Jeems the poet

Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Jeems); George W. Howard Griffin (role: Joe Stroughton)

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 June 1863, 7.

“LAST WEEK BUT ONE OF THE SEASON.”

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 July 1863, 91.

“Fun! Look in at Bryant’s Minstrels, and see the show. Go in, if you do get squeezed, for it’s a rare entertainment the boys give, and will do you more good than a dose of castor oil. Try it, the entertainment, we mean, and see if you don’t feel invigorated and refreshed after it.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 04 July 1863, 96.

4)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 July 1863, 7.