Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Dan Bryant

Manager / Director:
Dan Bryant

Conductor(s):
James H. Ross

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
16 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
17 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
18 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
18 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
19 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
20 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
20 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Charles Templeton;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  William Henry [minstrel] Rice;  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  William H. Brockway;  Jimmie [song and dance] Emerson;  Fred Walz;  J. J. [minstrel tenor] Kelly
2)
"Jennie, the flower of Kildare"
Composer(s): Stewart
Text Author: Dumont
Participants:  J. J. [minstrel tenor] Kelly
3)
"Musical chowder"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Dave [minstrel] Reed
4)
"Will you love me when I'm old?"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Charles Templeton
5)
"Pleasant memories"
Composer(s): Thomas
Text Author: Simmonds
Participants:  Fred Walz
6)
"You never miss the water till the well runs dry"
aka You never miss the lager till the keg runs dry
Composer(s): Howard
7)
"Alabaster Liz"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  John P. Hogan [minstrel]
8)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on; Timpanion
9)
No cure, no pay
aka No cure no pay
10)
Italian airs by native artists
aka Italian airs sung by native artists; Italian airs; Burlesque on Italian airs; Italian opera burlesque
Composer(s): Unidentified
11)
United States mail, The
aka U. S. mail
12)
Four orphans, The
13)
Daniel in the Bryant's den
14)
Under the kerosene lamp
15)
Terrific explosion

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 February 1875, 16.

Thursday matinee benefit for Mrs. Sanderson, mother of the late Nelse Seymour.

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 February 1875, 6.

“In their cosy theatre in Twenty-third-st. Bryant’s Minstrels continue their entertaining performance which has been modified to be in keeping with midwinter, and is enlivened with jokes possessing an agreeable degree of freshness. Songs, sentimental and comic, with burlesques on the drama are leading features of the evening’s sport, and in their way are very good. The oddities of negro character are amusingly introduced in a merry-making scene on the Mississippi River in what seems now the olden time.”

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 February 1875, 382.

Program changes since last week. Large attendance at Thursday matinee benefit for the mother of the late Nelse Seymour.