Tony Pastor’s Opera House
Event Information
Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
8 October 2018
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
31 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM01 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
02 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
03 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
04 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
05 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Baseball; or, The champion nine is described in the citations as “the great match game between the Female Base Ball Club and Tony Pastor’s Club for a Prize Bat, played by a full nine on each side.”
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Tony Pastor’s Company; Tony Pastor; Bob [minstrel] Hart; Jennie Engel; Johnny Thompson
Citations
1)
“Introducing a match game between male and female ninees, something novel surely, and a formal admission of woman’s rights. Mr. Bob Hart, formerly a great favorite of the Theatre Comique, has been engaged at this house.”
3)
“Tony Pastor is doing a most excellent business at his Opera House in the Bowery, where a good company is engaged…This week Bob Hart appears, and the drama of ‘Base Ball, or the Champion Nine,’ will be presented.”