Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Apr 1873, Evening
08 Apr 1873, Evening
08 Apr 1873, 2:30 PM
09 Apr 1873, Evening
10 Apr 1873, Evening
11 Apr 1873, Evening
12 Apr 1873, Evening
12 Apr 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Turner and Lester [song and dance];  Charley White;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Emmett;  Harry Hart [Ethiopian Comedian];  Marie [dancer] Gorenflo;  Amelia [dancer] Gorenflo;  Billy Pastor;  Charles F. [actor] Seabert;  Peter [comic vocalist] Cannon;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd;  George F. [comedian] Moore;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  Herr Willio;  Fanny Fordham
2)
City life
Text Author: Seabert
3)
Freaks of nature
Participants:  Charley White
4)
Imitations
aka Impersonations
Participants:  Herr Willio
5)
Comic songs
Participants:  Billy Pastor;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd
6)
Irish songs
aka Irish melodies; Popular, national, and Irish airs; Hibernian songs
Participants:  Peter [comic vocalist] Cannon

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 April 1873, 20.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 April 1873, 22.

“Billy Pastor sang a number of comic songs which were liberally applauded. He has an excellent voice, his songs were fresh, and he was many times recalled.”