Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.50 parquet; .30 gallery; $5 private boxes

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 April 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Nov 1865, Evening
28 Nov 1865, Evening
29 Nov 1865, Evening
30 Nov 1865, Evening
01 Dec 1865, Evening
02 Dec 1865, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; William P. Grier [minstrel]; Little [minstrel] Mac; Charles Templeton; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Dan Bryant; John H. Sivori; Daniel Decatur Emmett; Neil Bryant; James Morrison; Nelse Seymour; Mickey [jig dancer] Warren; Jules Stratton [minstrel]; John S. [minstrel] Cox; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; George F. Clarendon; Napoleon W. Gould

2)

Challenge dance

3)

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

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

4)

"Cartes de visite"

aka Carte-de-visite album, The

5)

Black carpet bag, The

6)

"Black Brigade, The," [plantation song and dance]

aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

7)

Reckon I’se in luck

aka Reckon I'm in luck

8)

Essence of Little Mac

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

9)

Latest from Paris, The

10)

Live ingin, The

aka Live injun

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-York Times, 27 November 1865, 4.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 November 1865, 7.

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 02 December 1865, 267.

“Crowded each evening with highly respectable and fashionable audiences. . . . In a brilliant variety of New Songs, Choruses, Dances, Farces, Burlesques, Sketches, Operatic and Plantation Scenes.”