Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 March 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Feb 1864, 7:45 PM
01 Mar 1864, 7:45 PM
02 Mar 1864, 7:45 PM
03 Mar 1864, 7:45 PM
04 Mar 1864, 7:45 PM
05 Mar 1864, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Benefit for the Sanitary Commission on Saturday.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Little [minstrel] Mac;  James Morrison;  G. A. Conners;  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  James Garatagua;  Tommy Gettings;  John H. Sivori;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Dan Bryant;  Frank [minstrel] Leslie;  J. W. [minstrel] Hilton;  George S. Fowler [minstrel];  Nelse Seymour;  Neil Bryant;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  Rollin Howard
2)
Mazeppa, [burlesque]
aka Wild steed of Bohoken; Wild steed of the Bowery; Wild mule of Tartary; Wild zebra of Elm Park
3)
Taming a butterfly, [minstrel parody]
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
4)
Challenge dance
5)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on; Timpanion
6)
Four crows, The
7)
"Sally, come up"
aka Sally come up
8)
Stocks up
aka Stocks up and stocks down
9)
Donnybrook reel
10)
Essence of Little Mac
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
11)
Exempt Shakers
aka Exempt Shaking Quakers; Exempt Shakers from Lebanon Town; Lebanon Shakers, The ; Shaking Quakers

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 February 1864, 2.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 February 1864.

“Dan Bryant in his great bare back act.”  Saturday night is a benefit for the Sanitary Commission.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 05 March 1864, 375.

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 05 March 1864, 371.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 12 March 1864, 379.
Saturday performance for the benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.  “[Needless] to say, the house was crowded.  All honor to the Bryant Brothers for their liberality in such a good cause.”