Fun on the Bristol

Fun on the Bristol is a minstrel-style character sketch created and performed by John F. Sheridan (??-1908)[]

Also known as Fun on the Bristol, or A Night on the Sound.

With its action taking place in an uptown New York house and later on the Sound steamer Bristol, the story revolves around an the elderly Irish widow O'Brien and her two daughters. Both women have become enraptured by Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, and as a consequence are to be taken to a lunatic asylum.

A sketch of the "Widow O'Brien", it was created while Sheridan was in Australia, and was first performed in 1882.

E. Le Roy Rice. 1911. Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to Date. Рипол Классик: p.183[1]

J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (Second, revised edition, p. 423). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book: p. 183[2]