Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Price: $.50 orchestra; $.35 parquet; $.25 family circle

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Nov 1873, 2:30 PM
06 Nov 1873, Evening
07 Nov 1873, Evening
08 Nov 1873, 2:30 PM

Program Details

Music in Gotham cannot find citations for performances on Monday (11/03/73), Tuesday (11/04/73), and Wednesday (11/05/73) evenings, but assumes these took place, as regular nightly performances did for weeks before and after.

“Ladies admitted free” on Friday.

Performers and/or Works Performed

4)
aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Jennie Engel
7)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Jennie Engel

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 November 1873, 2.

Multiple cards on this page.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 November 1873, 12.

“One ticket admits both lady and gentleman this evening.”

3)
Review: New York Herald, 08 November 1873, 3.

“The moral test which Mr. Pastor applies to the frequenters of his Opera House has respect to their willingness to take their wives to that temple of entertainment on Friday evening. Without venturing to place offenders in this particular quite so low in the scale of humanity as the east side manager seems disposed to do, we may safely say that seldom has an opportunity been presented of witnessing just that class of entertainment upon terms so profitable to the spectator.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 November 1873, 262.

“…The Freeman Sisters enhanced their already good artistic reputation by their clever performance of a musical sketch called ‘Flirtation.’…Miss Jennie Engel sang a new song entitled ‘Come Back, Jack,’ which at once became popular. Walters and Morton, by the original eccentricities introduced in their songs-and-dances, secured approbation. Tony Pastor enlivened his budget of comic songs by the introduction of fresh ones, which were sung with all the vim and dash which ever characterizes his vocal efforts. Gus Williams retained his popular hold upon the audiences by his excellent Dutch character songs and witty speeches, and by his laughable Fritz Muckewater in a local sketch by Seabert called ‘The Tenth Ward by Day and Night.’ The regular company, in freshly revived sketched, appeared at intervals among the above specialties. The prices of admission have been placed upon a specie basis, viz.: [lists prices by section].”