Bryants’ Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
30 March 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
11 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM12 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
13 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
14 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
15 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
16 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Tommy Gettings; Daniel Decatur Emmett; James Garatagua; Neil Bryant; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Nelse Seymour; G. A. Conners; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; James Morrison; J. W. [minstrel] Hilton; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Sam A. Wells; Dan Bryant; John H. Sivori; Rollin Howard
2)
aka Knights of Ethiopia, The;
Soirée d'Ethiopia;
Soiree d'Ethiope
Composer(s): Unidentified
3)
aka Tin panonion;
Tin-pan-on-ion;
Tinpanonion;
Tin pan onion;
Tin Pano-ni-on;
Tin-pan-o-ni-on
8)
aka Seedy musicians;
Old time's rocks;
Old times' rocks;
Old times rock
12)
aka U. S. Grant;
USG;
plantation festival scene;
US Grant;
Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
13)
aka Pompey's blunders!;
Pomp's blunders
Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Pompey Smash); Nelse Seymour (role: Old Puffy)
Citations
1)
- “A brief engagement with the popular Basso and versatile artist Mr. S.A. Wells.”
3)
– “Sam Wells, who played in this city years ago with the original Christy’s Minstrels, and who has since been in California, will commence a brief engagement at Bryants’ Minstrels, this evening, previous to his return to the land of gold. . . . [He is] one of the old stock of minstrels.
5)
“Dear, dear, how they do crowd into Bryants. Last week, Sam Wells showed and was most favorably received by many of his old friends. . . . He did the middle business, for a flyer, and sang a couple of songs, all of which he did well, and for which he was well commended. . . . The Bryants are one of our fixtures, one of our favorite troupes, and if we get jilted by one of our girls, and the blues seize upon us, we go to Bryants."