Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Dan Bryant
Neil Bryant

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 May 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Apr 1866, Evening
03 Apr 1866, Evening
04 Apr 1866, Evening
05 Apr 1866, Evening
06 Apr 1866, Evening
07 Apr 1866, Evening

Program Details

The burlesque on Traviata includes “Ah, force him” (Violetta’s aria, Ah, fors'e lui).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Daniel Decatur Emmett; Neil Bryant; Nelse Seymour; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Thomas Henry [Ethiopian comedian] Ryan; John P. Hogan [minstrel]; Collins [minstrel]; Dan Bryant; Rollin Howard

2)

Vulcan at the forge

3)

Latest from Paris, The

4)

Rival darkies, The

aka Rival darkeys

5)

aka U. S. Grant; USG; plantation festival scene; US Grant; Ulysses S. Grant

Composer(s): Emmett

Text Author: Emmett

6)

7)

Scenes at Donnybrook

8)

Blacksmith's jubilee

aka Blacksmith jubilee

9)

Plantation scenes

10)

Huguenot, The, [burlesque]

Composer(s): Unidentified

11)

Jocko the monkey, [minstrel]

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

12)

Elephant, The

aka Taming the elephant; Baby elephant; Pet elephant

13)

aka Clog reel

Participants: John P. Hogan [minstrel]

14)

Traviata, La, [minstrel burlesque]

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 April 1866, 7.

2)

Announcement: New York Herald, 02 April 1866.

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 April 1866, 7.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 07 April 1866, 414.

“Be Careful.—We spent the evening of Good Friday with Bryants’ Minstrels. In the hope that silence on our part may have the effect to induce a reform in what we there and then beheld, we shall say nothing of the proceedings on that occasion. ‘It is never too late to mend.’”

5)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 07 April 1866, 416.

6)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 April 1866, 7.