Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.50 parquet; .30 family circle

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Feb 1866, Evening
13 Feb 1866, Evening
14 Feb 1866, Evening
15 Feb 1866, Evening
16 Feb 1866, Evening
17 Feb 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Live injun
4)
aka Sonambula; Sonnambula Amina; S.o.n.n.a.m.b.u.l.a.; or, The supper, the sleeper, and the merry Swiss boy
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 February 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 February 1866.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 February 1866, 366.

     “The Bryants have secured another lease of their popular hall for one year more”—although this information is later shown to be inaccurate, due to excessive increase in rent, in item on 03/03/66, p. 374.