Event Information
Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House
Price: $.25; $.35; $.50
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 March 2025
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
02 Mar 1874, Evening03 Mar 1874, Matinee
03 Mar 1874, Evening
04 Mar 1874, Evening
05 Mar 1874, Evening
06 Mar 1874, Evening
07 Mar 1874, Matinee
07 Mar 1874, Evening
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Freeman Sisters; Stuart Sisters; Claire Sisters [contortionists]; Tony Pastor; Frank [minstrel] Girard; Larry Tooley; Charles F. [actor] Seabert; Joe [song and dance] Lang; Blanche [comedian] Selwyn; Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry; Andy [Irish vocalist] Hughes; Annie [Irish vocalist] Hughes; Hannah Birch; Katie [vocalist] Shaw
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants: Andy [Irish vocalist] Hughes; Annie [Irish vocalist] Hughes
Citations
1)
“Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.”
2)
“…the freshest features were the Stuart Sisters, who sang several pleasing duets and danced double clog-dances in the liveliest manner. Blanche Selwyn returned after a brief absence, and met with a hearty reception—her character songs in male attire proved as attractive as ever…Tony Pastor revived some songs which had not been heard in many months and they proved as enjoyable as of old. His song of the stereopticon continues a marked feature…”