New Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Price: $1; $.50; $.25

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Nov 1873, 7:45 PM
11 Nov 1873, 7:45 PM
12 Nov 1873, Matinee
12 Nov 1873, 7:45 PM
13 Nov 1873, 7:45 PM
14 Nov 1873, 7:45 PM
15 Nov 1873, Matinee
15 Nov 1873, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wilson Brothers [gymnasts];  Cogill and Cooper [song and dance];  Ida [dancer] Ross;  Master Barney;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Add Ryman;  Billy West;  George F. [actor] Ketchum;  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding;  Johnny Hart;  Sam [comedian] Rickey
2)
Happy Irish couple, The
aka Happy Irish pair
3)
Innocence abroad
Participants:  Ida [dancer] Ross;  Johnny Hart;  Alexandrina [dancer] Ross
4)
Paddy's blunders
5)
Mulcahey twins, The
aka Mucaney twins
Participants:  Master Barney;  Sam [comedian] Rickey

Citations

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

Full cast list.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 November 1873, 9.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 November 1873, 270.

“John and Maggie Fielding—whose excellence in their musical sketches is patent to our readers…constituted the fresh attractions…at the Metropolitan Theatre, which was well filled with pleased audiences. Since Mons. La Thorne has assumed direction of the stage department, a marked improvement is noticeable. A double tambourine dance by the Misses Alexandrina and Ida Ross, introduced in the sketch of ‘Innocence Abroad,’ won an encore…Approbation was bestowed upon the songs-and-dances of Cogill and Cooper. Capital parodies upon popular ballads, sung by William West, who accompanied himself upon the banjo, elicited uproarious mirth...” Full program and cast list.