Bryant’s Minstrels

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
18 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
19 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
20 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
21 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM
22 Nov 1873, 2:00 PM
22 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Morrisey and Emerson [song and dance]; Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour; Charles Templeton; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Bob [minstrel] Hart; William H. Brockway; Harry [banjo player] Stanwood; James Unsworth; [minstrel singer] Eugene; William [minstrel tenor] Dwyer

2)

Medea, [burlesque]

3)

"See, sir, see"

aka See sir see

4)

Composer(s): Sanford

5)

"Call me your darling again"

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: Charles Templeton

6)

aka Barney Aileen

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: William [minstrel tenor] Dwyer

7)

Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]

Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

8)

Conspirators, The

9)

Slippery day, A

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 November 1873, 7.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 November 1873, 4.

3)

Review: New York Clipper, 29 November 1873, 278.

“Prosperity seems to crown the efforts of Bryant’s Minstrels. The opening chorus of ‘See, Mr., See,’ introducing ‘Lucy Neal,’ revived recollections of the palmy days of minstrelsy.”