Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Feb 1873, Evening
11 Feb 1873, Evening
11 Feb 1873, 2:30 PM
12 Feb 1873, Evening
13 Feb 1873, Evening
14 Feb 1873, Evening
15 Feb 1873, Evening
15 Feb 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Turner and Lester [song and dance];  Healy and Conway [song and dance];  Ella [vocalist] Saunders;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  John [English vocalist, dancer] Williams;  Rosa [vocalist] Lee;  Carrie Lavarnie;  Alice [child singer] Bennett;  Hen Mason;  Tony Pastor;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd;  Kitty [vocalist] Sharpe;  Gus [comic singer] Williams;  Charles F. [actor] Seabert;  Amelia [dancer] Gorenflo;  Marie [dancer] Gorenflo;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Emmett;  Frank [minstrel] Girard
2)
Night at a free and easy, A
3)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Carrie Lavarnie;  Rosa [vocalist] Lee
4)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Gus [comic singer] Williams
5)
Song and dance
Participants:  Kitty [vocalist] Sharpe

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 February 1873, 4.

“Ladies admitted free on Fridays.” 

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 February 1873, 374.

“Gus Williams was most enthusiastically greeted, and his Dutch character songs and witty sayings were fresh and original. Turner and Lester, two excellent song and dance men, somewhat marred their performances by questionable actions.”