Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
02 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
03 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1874, 2:00 PM
04 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
05 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
06 Jun 1874, 2:00 PM
06 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Neil Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  William H. Brockway;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  T. [vocalist] Merchant
2)
Trip to Paris
3)
Live ingin, The
aka Live injun
4)
Surprise party
5)
Stump speech
aka Stump oration; Any other man
Participants:  James Unsworth
6)
Go west, or, Riding in a Pullman car
7)
"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
8)
Uncle Eph's dream
aka My old Kentucky home
Text Author: White

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 May 1874, 13.

Neil Bryant’s benefit, Thursday matinee.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1874, 78.

Neil Bryant’s benefit on Thursday.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 June 1874, 86.

“The season, which has been highly prosperous, is drawing to a close. Neil Bryant received substantial evidence that his friends had not forgotten him at his matinee benefit on June 4.”