Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
02 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
03 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
04 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
05 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
06 Dec 1873, 2:00 PM
06 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

5)
aka Ghost in a pawn shop ; Ghost in a pawnbroker's shop; Pawnbroker's ghost
6)
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on; Timpanion
9)
aka Ten minutes at the Academy
10)
Composer(s): Balfe
Participants:  A. H. [bass] Clarke
11)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Charles Templeton
12)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Dan Bryant
13)
aka Strike the harp gently, my pretty Louise
Composer(s): Woodbury
Text Author: Woodbury

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 November 1873, 7.

“Two hours’ fun. All new acts.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 November 1873, 4.

Notes Unworth will “solo on the tootleootle” and Eugene will be “the burlesque prima donna” in Jubilee Concert.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 December 1873, 294.

A. H. Clarke, basso, made his first appearance at Bryant’s Minstrels on Dec. 1, J. W. Lamont, basso, and William Dwyer, tenor, having been discharged the previous week. Mr. Clarke has a powerful, resonant voice, which was heard to good advantage in ‘Let All Obey,’ and we think he will become a favorite. The other changes in first part were a new song, ‘Call Me Your Darling,’ effectively sung by Charles Templeton; ‘Get Aboard, Little Children,’ comically rendered by Dan Bryant; and ‘Strike the Harp Gently, my Pretty Louise,’ by W. Raymond. Morrissy [sic] and Emerson gave an effective double song-and-dance in the olio, in which the only other changes consisted of the revival of a sketch of ‘A Ghost in a Pawnshop,’ a comical banjo scene by Harry Stanwood, and Nelse Seymour and Dan Bryant in an act called ‘Can’t Shake Him.’ The financial depression has little effect on the attendance, which has continued large.”