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:
5 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 May 1864, 8:00 PM
31 May 1864, 8:00 PM
01 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
02 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
03 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Buffalo Boys; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; John H. Sivori; Tommy Gettings; Dan Bryant; James Garatagua; Daniel Decatur Emmett; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Neil Bryant; Nelse Seymour; G. A. Conners; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; James Morrison; J. W. [minstrel] Hilton; Frank [minstrel] Leslie

2)

Tin-pan-onion

aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on

3)

Serious family, The, [burlesque]

4)

Black chemist, The

Text Author: White

5)

Three strikers, The

6)

Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]

Text Author: Reed

7)

Essence of Little Mac

aka Mac's essence; Little Mac's essence of Old Virginia

8)

Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]

aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock

9)

aka U. S. Grant; USG; plantation festival scene; US Grant; Ulysses S. Grant

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 May 1864.

2)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 June 1864, 62.

“[I]f business keeps on as it is now [at Bryants’], the boys will have to play it out on that line all summer, with the usual respite for recreation and recuperation, for their hall is a jam nearly all the time. It’s better to be a minstrel manager than a brigadier-general.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 04 June 1864, 64.

Performers.