Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 September 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Dec 1872, Evening
03 Dec 1872, Evening
03 Dec 1872, 2:30 PM
04 Dec 1872, Evening
05 Dec 1872, Evening
06 Dec 1872, Evening
07 Dec 1872, Evening
07 Dec 1872, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Delehanty and Hengler [minstrels];  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Billy Emerson;  Jennie Engel;  Marie [dancer] Gorenflo;  Amelia [dancer] Gorenflo;  Charles F. [actor] Seabert;  Gus [comic singer] Williams;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd;  Hen Mason;  Harry Kernell;  Tom Granger;  John T. [Irish vocalist, dancer] Kelly;  Macy Roadcap
2)
Hottentots, The
aka African Hottentots
Participants:  Delehanty and Hengler [minstrels]
3)
Dunderbeck in a fix
Text Author: Seabert
Participants:  Gus [comic singer] Williams (role: Hans Von Dunderbeck)
4)
"Love among the roses," [song]
aka All among the roses
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Delehanty and Hengler [minstrels]
5)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Macy Roadcap
6)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Jennie Engel
7)
Stump speech
aka Stump oration; Any other man
Participants:  Gus [comic singer] Williams
8)
Irish songs
aka Irish melodies; Popular, national, and Irish airs; Hibernian songs
Participants:  John T. [Irish vocalist, dancer] Kelly

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 May 1872, 7.

“Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 December 1872, 294.

“Miss Macy Roadcap has a pleasing face, a good figure, was elegantly and richly costumed, and her songs and dances were received with no little enthusiasm.”