Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Dan Bryant
Neil Bryant

Price: $.50 parquet; $.30 family circle; $5 private boxes

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 June 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jan 1866, 7:45 PM
16 Jan 1866, 7:45 PM
17 Jan 1866, 7:45 PM
18 Jan 1866, 7:45 PM
19 Jan 1866, 7:45 PM
20 Jan 1866, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; William P. Grier [minstrel]; Little [minstrel] Mac; Charles Templeton; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Dan Bryant; J. W. Raynor [minstrel]; Rollin Howard; Daniel Decatur Emmett; Nelse Seymour

2)

Ici on parle français

aka Ici on parle francais

Text Author: Williams

3)

Streets of New York, The, [burlesque]

aka Streets of New-York

Participants: Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed

4)

"Come home, Father"

Composer(s): Work

Participants: Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]

5)

Jocko the monkey, [minstrel]

aka Jocko, a mischievous monkey; Monkeyana; Monkey act; Little Mac as the monkey

Participants: Little [minstrel] Mac

6)

"Cruelty to Johnny"

7)

Bad boys, The

8)

Perfect cures, The

aka Perfect cure

9)

Laughyoucansir

Composer(s): Unidentified

Participants: Rollin Howard (role: Sall lick her, Queen of Africa)

10)

Echo, The, [minstrel]

Participants: Nelse Seymour

11)

In and out of place

Text Author: Johnson

Participants: William P. Grier [minstrel]; Little [minstrel] Mac

12)

Hand alone brothers, The

aka Hand-a-lone brothers, The

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Herald, 15 January 1866, 4.

“Bryants’ Minstrels are, as usual, musical, amusing and well patronized. . . . Dan Bryant will be out as the Stump Orator this evening. Afterwards, selections from an extensive programme will be performed—Laughyoucansir, with Sall lick her [sic], Queen of Africa, by Rollin Howard; The Echo, with Nelse Seymour and Dan Bryant; In and Out of Place, with Messrs. Grier, Reed, and Little Mac; Ici on Parle Francais, and many other excellent pieces.”

2)

Announcement: New-York Times, 15 January 1866, 4.

In “Amusements This Evening.” Some works.

3)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 January 1866, 7.

Works.

4)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 January 1866, 8.

“Mr. Dan Bryant’s Minstrels travestie ‘The Streets of New York’ in [sic] a clever manner, and do other funny things which, to borrow the jest of a cotemporary [sic], are ‘too humorous to mention.’”

5)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 20 January 1866, 326.