Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Dan Bryant
Neil Bryant

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Aug 1863, 8:00 PM
01 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
02 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
03 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
04 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
05 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  William P. Grier [minstrel];  Little [minstrel] Mac;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Dan Bryant;  Tommy Gettings;  Rollin Howard;  James Garatagua;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  Neil Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  G. A. Conners;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  James Morrison;  J. W. [minstrel] Hilton;  W. [minstrel] Mullen
2)
Challenge dance
3)
Blacksmith's jubilee
aka Blacksmith jubilee
4)
Norma, [burlesque]
aka Grand scene Norma
Participants:  Rollin Howard
5)
Fife and drum major
6)
Essence of Little Mac
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
7)
Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Deaf Boy);  Nelse Seymour (role: Hank Mudge)
8)
"Who can find us now?"
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 August 1863, 7.
Time, price, names, works.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 31 August 1863, 2.

“The Ghosts still run at . . . the burlesques at Woods and the Bryants.”


COMMENT: “The Ghost” is only in Wood’s ads for this week.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 September 1863, 7.

4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 05 September 1863, 168.
“Bryants’ Opera House . . . in a new variety of songs, dances, burlesques, plantation scenes.”
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 12 September 1863, 171.

“Bryants’ Minstrels continue to crowd their comfortable little hall every night.  Their wit is keen and pungent, and their burlesques sufficiently comical to draw smiles from the most hypochondriacal of humanity.  Their dancing is the quintessence of gracefulness and their repertoire of Minstrelsy is full of the richest gems that one does not weary of listening to.”