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:
17 February 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM
05 Mar 1872, 2:30 PM
05 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM
06 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM
07 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM
08 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM
09 Mar 1872, 2:30 PM
09 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  McIntire and Foley;  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Frank Kerns;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Sam Devere;  Orville [Ethiopian comedian] Pitcher;  Hen Mason;  Kitty [vocalist] Ashcroft
2)
Six nights in the Bowery
Text Author: Poole
3)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor
4)
Banjo solos
Participants:  Orville [Ethiopian comedian] Pitcher
5)
Song and dance
Participants:  Orville [Ethiopian comedian] Pitcher
6)
Stump speech
aka Stump oration; Any other man
Participants:  Orville [Ethiopian comedian] Pitcher

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 March 1872, 8.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 March 1872, 398.

“Orville Pitcher is one of the best performers in his line that we have seen for a long time, his banjo solo eliciting an enthusiastic encore, in response to which he gave a song and dance, which met with much approbation, and on being recalled he favored the audience with a stump speech abounding in wit and humor, which was characteristically delivered in an easy and suave manner.”