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:
25 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
10 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
11 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
12 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
13 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM
14 Jun 1873, 2:00 PM
14 Jun 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  John H. Sivori;  William Henry [minstrel] Rice;  William H. Brockway;  Harry [banjo player] Stanwood;  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond
2)
"What Mollie said"
aka What Molly said
Composer(s): Wellman
Text Author: Carleton
Participants:  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond
3)
Modocs, The, [sketch]
aka Border life on the frontier; Last of the Modocs
4)
Live ingin, The
aka Live injun
5)
Pompey's blunders
aka Pompey's blunders!; Pomp's blunders; Pompey's patients
6)
Arrival of Lucca; or, Paw-lean on the rampage
aka Pauline on the rampage
7)
Daniel in the Bryant's den
8)
Clodoche Troupe burlesque
aka Burlesque of the Clodoche Troupe
9)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 June 1873, 4.

Harry Stanwood and John Sivori benefit on Saturday afternoon.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 21 June 1873, 94.

“The entertainments were highly amusing, and gave the best of satisfaction. Dan Bryant, Nelse Seymour and the other comedians were in the best of humor, and kept the audience so. The attendance has been quite good for the season of the year.”