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:
13 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
25 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
26 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
27 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
28 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM
29 Nov 1862, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dan Bryant;  Sherwood C. Campbell;  Rollin Howard;  George W. Howard Griffin;  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb
2)
Scenes of boyhood
Participants:  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb
3)
"Old Carolina extract"
aka South Carolina extract; Old Carlina extract
Participants:  W. W. [minstrel] Newcomb
4)
"Cruelty to Johnny"
5)
Rival darkies, The
aka Rival darkeys
6)
"High Daddy"
Composer(s): Emmett
7)
Ballads
aka Favorite ballads ; Ballads and warblings; Beautiful ballads
Participants:  Sherwood C. Campbell
8)
Lady of Lyons, The, [minstrel parody]
aka Lady of Lyons
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Frederick Napoleon Glavis);  Rollin Howard (role: Polly Ann);  George W. Howard Griffin (role: Clod Meddlesome)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 November 1862, 7.
“First appearance of [Newcomb] since his return from Europe.”
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 27 November 1862, 8.
Mentions Thanksgiving matinees for Wood’s, Christy’s and Campbell’s but NOT Bryant’s.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 November 1862, 7.