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:
28 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
26 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
27 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
28 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
29 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
30 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  John H. Sivori;  Dan Bryant;  Tommy Gettings;  Rollin Howard;  James Garatagua;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  Neil Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  G. A. Conners;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  James Morrison;  J. W. [minstrel] Hilton;  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
2)
Take-it-and-leave man, The, [burlesque]
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Bob Ridley);  Nelse Seymour (role: The Tiger)
3)
"Nancy fat"
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)
Donnybrook reel
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)
U. S. G.
aka U. S. Grant; USG; plantation festival scene; US Grant; Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 January 1864.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 331.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1864, 335.

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 06 February 1864, 339.
“Anything will draw at Bryants’.  The company is not near so good as it formerly was, yet the houses are as full as they can pack them; girls and hoops and men being squeezed together in one seemingly inextricable mass.”