Anna Madah Hyers dressed as 'Urlina' in the opera Urlina the African Princess (1879)
Background information
Genres
black musical theater.
Years active
1867–1920s
Musical artist
The Hyers Sisters, Anna Madah (ca. 1855 – 1929) and Emma Louise (ca. 1857 – 1901),[1][2] were singers and pioneers of black musical theater. With Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays... in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy." Their first play was Out of Bondage (also known as Out of the Wilderness).[3][4]
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^Graham, Sandra Jean (2018). Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252041631.
Wilderness). Their father, Samuel B. Hyers, came west to Sacramento, California with their mother, Annie E. Hyers (née Cryer), after the Gold Rush. He...
Rebecca (née Barnhart). She was the middle of three sisters, with Agnes Ann and Jeanne. The Hyers were active in the Methodist church, where her father...
Davis, Chris Smith, Irving Jones, Turner Layton and Henry Creamer. The HyersSisters, who began performing in the late 1870s, and Sissieretta Jones, who...
Stewart Hyer (1860–1929), American educator and researcher Tom Hyer (1819–1864), American bare-knuckle boxer Hyers, West Virginia HyersSisters This page...
touring companies like Black Patti's Troubadours, the Whitman Sisters and the HyersSisters were popular acts. Other women worked the business side of Vaudeville...
the Original Nashville Singers, the Southern Jubilee Singers and the HyersSisters, among others. Meanwhile, Lucas attempted to branch out into non-minstrel...
different Georgia Minstrels and the HyersSisters. With the HyersSisters, the sisters' father, Samuel B. Hyers, organized a company which included Douglass...
Sarasate playing the solo part and the composer conducting. April 22 – The HyersSisters make their professional debut at Sacramento's Metropolitan Theater....
and the sale of sheet music. Performers included the Sacramento-born HyersSisters and Black Patti. Chinese immigrants came to California to work on the...
of questionable repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. The HyersSisters were also early pioneers in American musical theater, telling the stories...
boxer. Early in the 1890s McClain and his wife Cordelia joined the HyersSisters Company. In 1892 the couple joined the extravaganza South Before the...
director from 1884-1885. "Sawyer had a varied career, working with the Hyerssisters combination starting in 1877 and later as pianist and/or music director...
Singers Georgia Minstrels Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield Justin Holland HyersSisters Samuel W. Jamison Frank Johnson Lambert Family Frederick Elliot Lewis...
Julia Hayden Della Irving Hayden Josephine D. Heard Joan Imogen Howard HyersSisters Amelia E. Johnson Anna H. Jones Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones Sarah...
shows were less uplifting and more cynical than the musicals that the Hyerssisters were presenting at the time. The Blackville Derby is a sketch about...
Hayes Thomas Wentworth Higginson Lottie Hough Julia Ward Howe The HyersSisters Mary A. Livermore David Ross Locke Sam Lucas George MacDonald Mendelssohn...
Henning & Mark Tuttle January 5, 1966 (1966-01-05) 4–16 Tracy Richards (Martha Hyer), the world's richest woman, tries to convince the Clampetts to sell her...
the ABC television series China Beach, playing the role of Corporal Jeff Hyers. Throughout his career, Vaughn has gravitated toward characters who serve...
Bouvier Beale as herself Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale as herself Brooks Hyers as himself—Gardener Norman Vincent Peale as himself (voice) Jack Helmuth...
Sacramento reporter Nell Cutts (Rowles) barges into the home of the Borden sisters, Lizzie (Mathews) and Emma, in the hopes of an exclusive interview, and...
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