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:
14 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
19 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
20 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
21 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
22 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
23 Jan 1864, 7:30 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)

Take-it-and-leave man, The, [burlesque]

Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Bob Ridley); Nelse Seymour (role: The Tiger)

3)

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

Text Author: Reed

Participants: Dave [minstrel] Reed

4)

Tin-pan-onion

aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on

5)

Serious family, The, [burlesque]

6)

Essence of Little Mac

aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia

7)

Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]

aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock

8)

Fife and drum major

9)

aka Irish Donnybrook jig

10)

"Magic echo, The"

11)

Pompey's blunders

aka Pompey's blunders!; Pomp's blunders

Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Pompey Smashall); Nelse Seymour (role: Old Puffy)

12)

Exempt Shakers

aka Exempt Shaking Quakers; Exempt Shakers from Lebanon Town; Lebanon Shakers, The ; Shaking Quakers

13)

Perfect cures, The

aka Perfect cure

14)

"Who can find us now?"

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 January 1864.

2)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 23 January 1864.

Performers listed.

3)

Review: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 331.

Long, funny review of “The Take-it-and-leave man,” in the form of a letter to Dan Bryant by one “Hank Mudge, Judge.” The letter/review is making fun of advertisements for the Florence’s very successful Ticket of Leave Man, in which a judge and other prominent members of the city praise the positive moral effect of the play. “I had the deep gratification of witnessing your exquisite delineation of a colored ‘Take it and Leave Man.’ . . . I wish every colored clergyman and rioter to have an opportunity to see your Robert Ridley.”