Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.30 family circle; .50 parquet

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 December 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
20 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
21 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
22 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
23 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
24 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details



K: Current Events (Edwin Booth’s Evenings with Shakespeare)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant
2)
"Evenings with Shakespeare"
3)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
4)
"Nancy fat"
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
Text Author: Reed
5)
Soirée d'Ethiope
aka Knights of Ethiopia, The; Soirée d'Ethiopia; Soiree d'Ethiope
Composer(s): Unidentified
6)
Lord Dundreary on a lark
aka Lord Dundreary's giraffe
Participants:  Dan Bryant
7)
"Billy Patterson"
aka Who struck Billy Patterson?
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett
8)
"Musard concert"
9)
"Pillywillywinck Band, The"
aka Johnny Schmoker ("Pilly Willy Wink" in refrain.); Pillwillywink Band; Johani Schmoker
10)
Jeemes the poet
aka Jeems the poet
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 19 December 1864, 4.
Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 December 1864, 7.