Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Price: “Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings”

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Sep 1873, Evening
30 Sep 1873, Evening
30 Sep 1873, 2:30 PM
01 Oct 1873, Evening
02 Oct 1873, Evening
03 Oct 1873, Evening
04 Oct 1873, Evening
04 Oct 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
aka All's well that ends well

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 September 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 September 1873, 9.

Full cast list.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 11 October 1873, 222.

“…Manchester and Jennings added fresh zest to songs-and-dances by their excellent dancing and acrobatic feats. Moreover, their performances were exceedingly brief; so that the audiences, instead of being bored, were inclined to recall them several times. Larry Tooley, who made his first appearance on the east side of the town, at once became a favorite, and his Dutch character songs-and-dances were several times redemanded…The Weston Sisters, clad in charming male and female costumes of yellow satin trimmed with blue, performed a new song-and-dance entitled ‘Blue-eyed Joe,’ in which they achieved success, and, in response to an encore, gave another fresh one, of which we could not catch the title. Endowed with pretty faces, well-developed forms, good voices, and a fair knowledge of dancing, they speedily secured the favor of the audiences. Ella Wesner continued her character songs, introducing for the first time this season ‘Ten Thousand Miles Away,’ in which she may considered without a rival, her character acting being deserving of the highest commendation. The Fieldings continued their excellent musical (Irish) sketches, and it seemed as though the audience would never tire of listening to them, so frequently were they recalled. Kitty Sharpe danced a jig which merits praise. Jennie Engle sang with much dash and spirit serio-comic songs. Tony Pastor, among a number of fresh comic songs, introduced a novel and pleasing effect. An easel was placed in the centre [sic] of the stage, and a number of caricature portraits with their backs to the audience were placed beside it. Tony then sang a song alluding to prominent individuals, and as each person was referred to he placed a portrait of him upon the easel. The pictures were well drawn, the likenesses being excellent. Among those so delineated were Commodore Vanderbilt, Gen. B. F. Butler, Gen. Lee, Gen. Grant, Horace Greeley, Judge Dowling, James Fiske, Jr., Gen. Andrew Jackson, and Gen. Washington, concluding with a portrait of Tony Pastor…”