Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 May 1873, Evening
13 May 1873, Evening
13 May 1873, 2:30 PM
14 May 1873, Evening
15 May 1873, Evening
16 May 1873, Evening
17 May 1873, Evening
17 May 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Zig Zags;  St. George and Gibbons [song and dance];  D. L. Morris;  Frank Kerns;  Harry Hart [Ethiopian Comedian];  Billy Pastor;  Ida [actor] Leslie;  Iona [vocalist] Lang;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd;  Alice [child singer] Bennett;  Rosa [vocalist] Lee;  Frank [Ethiopian comedian, musician] Jones;  Emma [vocalist] Rice
2)
Forty female Jack Sheppards
aka Female forty thieves
3)
Cancan
aka Can can
Participants:  Zig Zags
4)
Comic songs
Participants:  Billy Pastor;  Iona [vocalist] Lang;  Celia [comic vocalist] Iferd

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 May 1873, 4.

“Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 May 1873, 62.

"Business good."