Bryant’s Minstrels

Event Information

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

Price: Children half price at matinee

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
09 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
10 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
11 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
12 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
13 Dec 1873, 2:00 PM
13 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Humpty Dumpty in cork seems only to have been performed at the Saturday matinee.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour; Charles Templeton; John B. Donniker; Dave [minstrel] Reed; William H. Brockway; Harry [banjo player] Stanwood; James Unsworth; [minstrel singer] Eugene; Fred [minstrel] Emerson

2)

Daniel in the Bryant's den

3)

Composer(s): Unidentified

Participants: John B. Donniker

4)

Fooling with the wrong man

Participants: James Unsworth; [minstrel singer] Eugene

5)

Burlesque on the Boston peace jubilee

6)

Tin-pan-onion

aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on; Timpanion

7)

Bazam guard, The

aka Bazams

8)

Mutton trial, The

aka Sheep trial; Great mutton trial

9)

Rival darkies, The

aka Rival darkeys

Participants: Dan Bryant; William H. Brockway; Fred [minstrel] Emerson

10)

"How d'ye, Aunt Susy?"

aka Down in Georgia; How do you?; How d'ye Aunt Susy

Composer(s): Stewart

Text Author: Dumont

Participants: Dave [minstrel] Reed

11)

"Hard times come again no more"

Composer(s): Foster

Text Author: Foster

Participants: Charles Templeton

12)

Sausage merchants, The

Participants: Nelse Seymour; Dave [minstrel] Reed

13)

Slippery day, A

14)

Humpty Dumpty in cork

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 December 1873, 7.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 December 1873, 4.

Multiple cards on this page.

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 December 1873, 2.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 20 December 1873, 302.

“An entire change in the olio, save the closing sketch of ‘The Slippery Day,’ was made at Bryant’s Minstrels… Unsworth gave original banjo songs… J. B. Donniker’s violin solo…”