Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Karl [cellist] Steele

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
03 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
05 Jun 1873, 2:00 PM
05 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
06 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
07 Jun 1873, 2:00 PM
07 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Charles Templeton;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  William Henry [minstrel] Rice;  William H. Brockway;  Harry [banjo player] Stanwood;  Karl [cellist] Steele
2)
"When they lay me ‘neath the sod"
aka When they lay me beneath the sod
Composer(s): Kerrigan
Participants:  Charles Templeton
3)
Burlesque circus
aka Comic circus; Circus show
4)
Gendarmes, The
aka Two gendarmes, The; Ebony blondes; Britain’s blondes by Africa’s Blacks; Gens d'armes
5)
Cello solo
Participants:  Karl [cellist] Steele
6)
Strolling players
7)
Modocs, The, [sketch]
aka Border life on the frontier; Last of the Modocs
8)
Live ingin, The
aka Live injun
9)
Pompey's blunders
aka Pompey's blunders!; Pomp's blunders; Pompey's patients
10)
Arrival of Lucca; or, Paw-lean on the rampage
aka Pauline on the rampage
11)
Daniel in the Bryant's den
12)
Clodoche Troupe burlesque
aka Burlesque of the Clodoche Troupe
13)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 June 1873, 4.

Thursday matinee benefit for B. W. Buchanan and W. H. Ricketts. 

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 June 1873, 86.

“For the season the average attendance has been good.”