Tony Pastor’s Opera House

“This popular East Side resort was crowded to repletion last evening by an enthusiastic audience. The programme was long enough, and varied enough and laughable enough to satisfy the most fastidious of the East Side theatre habitués, and the consequence was that everything passed off  well, even if the ‘railroad to ruin,’ which managed to lead to perdition in a very funny kind of way without any material damage to the exchequer of the company. Tony Pastor himself, after the ‘One Strike More’ had set the audience in the best possible humor, treated the house to some of his rhymes for the times and songs for all seasons, and was followed by Miss Helen Smith in her saltatorial evolutions, which made the ‘gods’ in the gallery open their eyes in wonderment. General Grant, Jr., also added his small quantum of humor, song and dance to the general entertainment, and laughable little piece of ‘A ‘Squire for a Day,’ evidently ticked the fancy of the audience very much, judging from the way they roared during its performance. The burlesque of ‘Formosa’ captured the climax of the many good things which the ‘gods’ and everybody else enjoyed, and the ‘Jersey  Eight’ and ‘Sam Boker’ divided the applause of the house between them.”

No mention of music.