Working Class Entertainment by and for the Working Class

Event Information

Venue(s):
Pythagoras Halle

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 March 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Mar 1869, Evening

Program Details

"Dances, recitations, songs, banjo duets" interspersed throughout program.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  J. [actor] Hurley
2)
Two heads are better than one
Text Author: Horne
3)
Tom and Jerry, [farce]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
4)
Box and cox
Text Author: Morton
5)
Duet, banjo
6)
Songs, unidentified
aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Sun, 11 March 1869.

“In Canal Street—Nos. 134 and 136—there is a building called Pythagoras Hall which is being converted into a Workingman’s Playhouse, supported by working men, and the players themselves of the same class. They are following out the suggestion of THE SUN, that they should get up their amusements among themselves, and sustain them by their own talents. This is a great encouragement all round, and if the programme which they have put forth for Thursday evening, March 11, will be creditably performed, as we have no doubt it will, it will induce other workmen in other parts of the city to follow their example. The selection of the pieces displays a good deal of skill, for they consist of the short farces styled, ‘Two Heads Better than One,’ ‘Tom and Jerry,’ and ‘Box and Cox,’ interspersed with dances, recitations, songs, banjo duets, and some of J. Hurly’s best imitations of birds and animals and feats of necromancy.”