Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 February 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
05 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
06 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
07 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
08 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
09 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Blockade runner
3)
aka Polly Ann
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
4)
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on
5)
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
6)
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
7)
aka Echo ghost; Ghost echo
9)
aka Congo cocoa dance; Congo cord dance
10)
aka Exempt Shaking Quakers; Exempt Shakers from Lebanon Town; Lebanon Shakers, The ; Shaking Quakers
11)
aka Perfect cure
12)
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, 04 April 1864.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 April 1864, 411.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 09 April 1864, 415.

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 April 1864, 4.

Black opera, under the impressarioship of Dannelli Bryanti more than keeps pace with the 14th street shop, for nothing stops a crowd from gathering at Mechanic’s Hall.  If the boys could enlarge their hall by taking in Crosby street, we believe they would still turn money away.  We tried to edge in at 472 Broadway one night last week, but we got squeezed worse than at the Fair, and we therefore beat what a brigadier general would call ‘a masterly retreat.’”

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 April 1864, 4.
Dan Bryant was on Saturday last, subsequent to the evening entertainment, the recipient of a valuable testimonial of personal esteem and respect, in the shape of a magnificent solid silver banjo, of exquisite manufacture, made by—Dobson. . . . At a later period of the evening, Dan was also the recipient of a splendid signet ring from a valued personal friend.”