Dan Bryant Annual Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Manager / Director:
William Rudolph Floyd

Event Type:
Minstrel, Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jun 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  James Unsworth
2)
Temptation; or, The Irish emigrant
aka Irish immigrant; Tim O'Brien; or, The Irish emigrant
Text Author: Brougham
3)
Handy Andy, [minstrel]
Participants:  Dan Bryant
4)
School, [burlesque]
aka Spelling match
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels
5)
"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
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
6)
Stump speech
aka Stump oration; Any other man
Participants:  James Unsworth

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 June 1874, 11.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 27 June 1874, 102.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 04 July 1874, 110.

Names of drama participants. “The attendance was very large.”