Tony Pastor’s Opera House

Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 May 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Aug 1867, Evening
06 Aug 1867, Evening
07 Aug 1867, Evening
07 Aug 1867, 2:30 PM
08 Aug 1867, Evening
09 Aug 1867, Evening
10 Aug 1867, Evening
10 Aug 1867, 2:30 PM

Program Details

“Grand revival of Tony Pastor’s Great Tour Around the World, With its great original and many new and novel effects. Grand Panorama Covering over a thousand feet of canvas.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Sheppard;  Sam Collyer
2)
Tour around New York, A; or, Day and night in the great city

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 August 1867, 3.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 August 1867, 7.

“grand panorama, its splendid mechanical effects, it great wealth of wit, its fine cast, Songs, Dances, etc. FRANCE, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, GERMANY. Life Scenes in Every Land. The Ocean Yacht Race, The Paris Exposition, Birth of the Stars and Stripes, Grand and Terrible Naval Combat, &c. . . .”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 August 1867, 3.

Adds “KEARSARGE and ALABAMA”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 August 1867, 142, 3d col., middle.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 August 1867, 150, 3d col., top.

Sam Collyer, a “clever” clog dancer, closes his engagement on Aug. 10.  “Tony Pastor holds his own, and Billy Sheppard is a favorite in his song and dance and banjo solo, but he cannot do ‘Nicodemus Johnson.’”