Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
13 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
14 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
15 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
16 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Jan 1874, 2:00 PM
17 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Charles Templeton;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond;  A. H. [minstrel vocalist] Pelham
2)
Enchantress, The, "Let all obey"
Composer(s): Balfe
Participants:  A. H. [minstrel vocalist] Pelham
3)
"Perhaps and mishaps"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Nelse Seymour
4)
"I'm leaving thee in sorrow, Annie"
Composer(s): Barker
Text Author: Gill
Participants:  Charles Templeton
5)
"Minstrel boy, The"
aka Minstrel boy to the war hath gone; Minstrel boy to the war is gone, The
Composer(s): Moore
Participants:  William [minstrel tenor] Raymond
6)
Ladder of fame, The
7)
Cinderella, [burlesque]
aka Cinderella in black; Cinderella in black; or, The fairy and the little glass slipper
Text Author: Unknown playwright
8)
Mutton trial, The
aka Sheep trial; Great mutton trial
9)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on; Timpanion

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 January 1874, 8.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 January 1874, 342.

Program changes since last week. “The present season has, thus far, been one of the most prosperous Mr. Bryant has ever had in this city. For many weeks past even standing-room could not be had by ten minutes past eight.”