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:
5 April 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
18 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM19 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
20 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
21 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
22 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
23 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; John H. Sivori; Tommy Gettings; Dan Bryant; 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
3)
aka Johnny Schmoker ("Pilly Willy Wink" in refrain.);
Pillwillywink Band;
Johani Schmoker
4)
aka Tin panonion;
Tin-pan-on-ion;
Tinpanonion;
Tin pan onion;
Tin Pano-ni-on;
Tin-pan-o-ni-on
11)
aka Lanagan's ball;
Lannergan's ball;
Lannigan's ball;
Lynagan’s Ball
Composer(s): Bryant, Glover
Citations
2)
List of performers. “In a new variety of Songs, Dances, Burlesques, Plantation Scenes, &c.”
4)
“Bryant’s [sic] Minstrels are so pressed for room that they may be compelled to adopt the reserved seat system, charging 50 cents to the reserved portion of the house, and 25 cents to the unreserved. If it will only give the habitues an inch or two more seating capacity, there will be no objection of the extra charge; but the gentlemen who do the moving up business must be barred out of the domains occupied by the people who go in for comfort and a high tariff. When one of the ushers was ‘going through’ the other night, we heard a young lady say—‘When I see that man coming along, I just feel like fainting, he squeezes so close.’ Most girls like a close squeeze, if we know anything about it, and we think we do.”