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:
14 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
30 Sep 1862, 7:45 PM
01 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
02 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
03 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM
04 Oct 1862, 7:45 PM

Program Details



K: Current Events - Patti in Opera.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  George S. Fowler [minstrel] (8);  J. W. [minstrel] Hilton (8);  Frank [minstrel] Leslie (8);  Little [minstrel] Mac;  Dan Bryant;  John H. Sivori;  Sherwood C. Campbell (6);  Tommy Gettings;  Rollin Howard (8);  William L. [minstrel] Hobbs;  George W. Howard Griffin;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  G. A. Conners;  Neil Bryant;  George W. [minstrel] Charles;  Nelse Seymour;  James Morrison
2)
Funny Jim
aka Funny Jim, the poet
3)
"Cruelty to Johnny"
4)
"Raw recruits; or, Abraham's daughter," [song]
Composer(s): Winner
5)
Tin-pan-onion
aka Tin panonion; Tin-pan-on-ion; Tinpanonion; Tin pan onion; Tin Pano-ni-on; Tin-pan-o-ni-on
6)
"Black Brigade, The"
aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett
7)
"Grand Scena, Sonnambula a la Carlotta Patti"
aka Sonnambula
Participants:  George W. Howard Griffin
8)
Running the blockade
aka Blockade runner
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Joe Merrimac);  George W. Howard Griffin (role: E Pluribus Unum);  Nelse Seymour (role: Jim Monitor)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 29 September 1862, 5.
“Continue[s] to attract overflowing houses.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 September 1862, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 04 October 1862.
Performers
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 October 1862.
“It is in this same Mechanic’s Hall, so long occupied by E.P. Christy, that the Bryants have met, and continue to meet, with such a run of luck, their establishment being crowded at all times.”
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 11 October 1862, 206.
“They have been ‘Running the Blockade’ at Bryants’ since our last, and a lively time they have had of it. We tried to run the blockade there the other night, but . . . we were somewhat behind time, and didn’t get through; couldn’t even find a back seat.”