Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.30 family circle; .50 parquet

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Oct 1864, 8:00 PM
18 Oct 1864, 8:00 PM
19 Oct 1864, 8:00 PM
20 Oct 1864, 8:00 PM
21 Oct 1864, 8:00 PM
22 Oct 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
2)
Challenge dance
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Dave [minstrel] Reed
3)
Wake up, William Henry
aka Wake up William Henry
Text Author: White
Participants:  Charley White
4)
Taming a butterfly, [minstrel parody]
Participants:  Victorien Sardou;  Henry Wood [minstrel];  [Free and Easy] Daly
5)
Martin Chezzlewit’s family
6)
Perfect cures, The
aka Perfect cure
7)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on
8)
"Nancy fat"
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
Text Author: Reed
Participants:  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Thomas McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
9)
Galoots, The
aka Benzeen galoots
10)
U. S. G.
aka U. S. Grant; USG; plantation festival scene; US Grant; Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett
Participants:  Daniel Decatur Emmett
11)
"Foot falls on de carpet"

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 October 1864.