Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Dan Bryant

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Feb 1874, 2:00 PM
23 Feb 1874, 8:00 PM
24 Feb 1874, 8:00 PM
25 Feb 1874, 8:00 PM
26 Feb 1874, 8:00 PM
27 Feb 1874, 8:00 PM
28 Feb 1874, 2:00 PM
28 Feb 1874, 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;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond
2)
"Bonnie Jean"
aka Bonny Jean
Composer(s): Miles
Text Author: Burns
Participants:  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond
3)
Fooling with the wrong man
4)
Cinderella, [burlesque]
aka Cinderella in black; Cinderella in black; or, The fairy and the little glass slipper
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 February 1874, 4.

Charity benefit for the poor of New York on Monday afternoon. 

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 March 1874, 390.

“The eighteenth year of Bryant’s Minstrels in this city commenced on Feb. 23…The attendance continued large.” 

3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 07 March 1874, 390.

Returns from the receipts for the Monday afternoon charity benefit.