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:
2 March 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Feb 1864, 7:30 PM
16 Feb 1864, 7:30 PM
17 Feb 1864, 7:30 PM
18 Feb 1864, 7:30 PM
19 Feb 1864, 7:30 PM
20 Feb 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)
Mazeppa, [burlesque]
aka Wild steed of Bohoken; Wild steed of the Bowery; Wild mule of Tartary; Wild zebra of Elm Park
Participants:  Nelse Seymour (role: Kate Fisher Mazeppa);  Little [minstrel] Mac (role: Adah Isaacs Menken Mazeppa);  Dave [minstrel] Reed (role: Leo Hudson Mazeppa);  Dan Bryant (role: Mazeppa No.1);  Neil Bryant (role: Frank Drew Mazeppa)
3)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on
4)
Essence of Little Mac
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
5)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
6)
Stocks up
aka Stocks up and stocks down
7)
Pompey's blunders
aka Pompey's blunders!; Pomp's blunders; Pompey's patients
8)
Perfect cures, The
aka Perfect cure

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 February 1864.
“Dan Bryant in his great Bare Back Act.”
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 20 February 1864.

“If you wish to witness every style of Mazeppa . . . at Bryants’ Minstrels they do ‘em up so brown, that the Mazeppa biz is the talk of the town.  It’s hypercoon and likewise hunkydora; and all for shillings, too, nothing more, ah.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 20 February 1864, 360.
Performers.