Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
21 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
22 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
23 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
24 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
25 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Keyword Current Events because of Bel Demonio.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  George W. Howard Griffin;  Nelse Seymour;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
2)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
3)
Blacksmith's jubilee
aka Blacksmith jubilee
4)
"Hope I don’t intrude"
5)
Duoterpsichoreanclogpedality
6)
"My Polly Ann"
aka Polly Ann
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
7)
Essence of Little Mac
aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia
8)
"On to Richmond"
9)
"Bel Delminico "
Participants:  Dave [minstrel] Reed (role: Count Sevenup);  Dan Bryant (role: Angey West-ally);  Nelse Seymour (role: Runfasto)
10)
"Who will care for Mother now"
Composer(s): Thompson
Text Author: Sawyer
11)
"Let me kiss him for his mother"
Composer(s): Ordway
12)
"When this cruel war is over"
aka Weeping, sad and lonely; When the cruel war is over; This cruel war
Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]
Text Author: Sawyer
13)
"Root hog or die; or, Do jog along"
aka Do jog along; Jog along, boys
Composer(s): McGowan [composer]
14)
"We’ll all drink stone blind"

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 June 1864.
“Soires [sic] D’Ethiope, interspersed with JOKES and COMICALITIES.”
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 20 June 1864, 4.
“BRYANT’S MINSTRELS continue to have their stereotyped houses, viz.: always full.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Post, 20 June 1864.
“Bel Delminico.”  Time.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 July 1864, 94.
“[At] Bryants’ Minstrels, where there is no fear of anybody getting the blues, or becoming sleepy, or coming back much more guilty than they went; because the amusement given us there is of an innocent character, and calculated to relieve the mind of those dreadful feelings engendered by losses in stocks, horse races, and playing policy.  If you would laugh and grow fat, the comicalities of the gentlemanly comedians will bring about that much-desired end; are you of a sad and sorrowing disposition, and would have that benign feeling kept sacred, the pathetic ballads and the plaintive singers will hold you ‘as you were;’ are you a volunteer, a conscript, or a man subject to the draft—our friends will ease your agitated mind by singing ‘Who Will Care for Mother Now?’ ‘Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother,’ ‘When This Cruel War Is Over,’ etc.; if you are of a roving, reckless disposition, the gentlemanly comedians before referred to will sing at you ‘Root Hog or Die,’ ‘We’ll All Drink Stone Blind,’ and so forth.”