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:
19 July 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
06 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM07 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
08 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
09 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
10 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
11 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Buffalo Boys; 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; John H. Sivori; Tommy Gettings; Dan Bryant; James Garatagua; Daniel Decatur Emmett
5)
aka Mr. Jack Cade
Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Jack Cade); Dave [minstrel] Reed (role: Lord Say)
9)
aka U. S. Grant;
USG;
plantation festival scene;
US Grant;
Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
10)
aka Pompey's blunders!;
Pomp's blunders;
Pompey's patients
Participants: Dan Bryant (role: Pompey Smashall); Nelse Seymour (role: Old Puffy)
Citations
2)
“Frank Leslie, of Bryant’s Minstrels, has been engaged for the stage department with M.C. Campbell’s Minstrels.”
3)
“Nigger singers become so accustomed to joking on the stage to amuse their audiences, that some of them occasionally forget themselves, and falsify the record in private. A short time since, an Ethiopian comedian, who had just returned from a tour, was boasting of what he had seen, and among other things, said he had come across a church a mile and a half long. ‘How broad was it?’ asked Frank Brower, who was one of the listeners. ‘About ten yards’ replied the funny man. ‘This, gentlemen,’ responded Frank, ‘is not a round lie, but differs from his other yarns, which are generally as broad as they are long.’ If you want to hear some Nigger yarns, well told, drop in at Bryants’ Minstrels some night, and hear Dan and his confreres. It’s good fun to be there.”