Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Conductor(s):
Joseph [conductor] Braham

Price: $.35; $.50 reserved

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 December 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
30 Jan 1872, 2:30 PM
30 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
31 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
01 Feb 1872, 8:00 PM
02 Feb 1872, 8:00 PM
03 Feb 1872, 2:30 PM
03 Feb 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  French Twin Sisters;  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Jennie Engel;  Frank Kerns;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Sam Devere;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd;  Hen Mason;  Mlle. Mahretta
2)
Ku Klux Klan
3)
Matrimony
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Jennie Engel
4)
Living photographs
aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits
Participants:  Mlle. Mahretta
5)
Song and dance
Participants:  French Twin Sisters
6)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor
7)
Artist's vision, The
8)
Gripsack, The
aka Grip sack; Magic gripsack
9)
National changes
10)
Cancan
aka Can can

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 January 1872, 2.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 February 1872, 358.