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:
25 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
08 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
09 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
10 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
11 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM
12 Sep 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Nelse Seymour; G. A. Conners; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; James Morrison; J. W. [minstrel] Hilton; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; John H. Sivori; Dan Bryant; Tommy Gettings; Rollin Howard; James Garatagua; Daniel Decatur Emmett; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Neil Bryant

2)

"Irishman in Italy, The"

Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Count McGinnis); Rollin Howard (role: Madame Fabbrico)

3)

"Mac Dill Darrolls"

4)

Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]

Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

Participants: Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour

5)

Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]

Text Author: Reed

Participants: Dave [minstrel] Reed

6)

Vulcan at the forge

7)

Fife and drum major

8)

"How are you, greenbacks?"

aka How are you greenbacks?; How are you green-backs? ; How are you, greenbacks!; We're comin', Fadder Abram; We're coming, Fadder Abram; We're coming, Father Abram

Composer(s): Glover

Text Author: Griffin, Bowers

9)

"Bourbon Arabs, The"

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 September 1863, 7.

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 12 September 1863, 171.