Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Dan Bryant

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:

This event is still undergoing additional verification.

Last Updated:
15 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM
10 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM
11 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM
12 Mar 1874, 12:00 PM
13 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM
14 Mar 1874, 2:00 PM
14 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Nelse Seymour;  Charles Templeton;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond;  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph;  Fred [minstrel] Emerson
2)
School, [burlesque]
aka Spelling match
Participants:  Bob [minstrel] Hart
3)
"Old town crier"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
4)
"We sat by the river"
aka You and I
Composer(s): Barnard
Text Author: Barnard
Participants:  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph
5)
"Hard times come again no more"
Composer(s): Foster
Text Author: Foster
Participants:  Charles Templeton
6)
"Gay young clerk in a dry goods store, The"
Composer(s): Hays
Participants:  Nelse Seymour
7)
Formosa, the most beautiful; or, The railroad to ruin [incidental music], "Dreaming eyes of long ago"
Composer(s): Operti
8)
Mulligan guards, The
9)
Elephant, The
aka Taming the elephant; Baby elephant; Pet elephant; Who owns dis elephant?
10)
Burlesque lecture
11)
Prima donna act
Participants:  [minstrel singer] Eugene
12)
Black brigands, The
aka Brigands noir, Les
13)
"Shoo fly, don't bodder me"
aka Shoo fly don't bother me; Shu fly don't bother me; Shew fly don’t bother me
Composer(s): Howard

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 March 1874, 11.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 21 March 1874, 406.

“Nelse Seymour has appeared on the bone-end of Bryant’s Minstrels, in the place of Dan Bryant, who is ill.” Program changes since last week.

3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 March 1874, 406.

“Mr. and Mr. Dan Bryant, both of whom have suffered for some time past from disease of the throat and lungs, left for Florida on Thursday, March 12, with the hope that a change of climate may effect a cure.”