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:
24 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Oct 1873, Evening
28 Oct 1873, Evening
28 Oct 1873, 2:30 PM
29 Oct 1873, Evening
30 Oct 1873, Evening
31 Oct 1873, Evening
01 Nov 1873, Evening
01 Nov 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
aka Irish melodies; Popular, national, and Irish airs; Hibernian songs
4)
aka Dinkelspiel’s blunders
5)
aka Out in the cold
Composer(s): Hays
Participants:  Freeman Sisters
6)
Participants:  Tony Pastor
7)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Jennie Engel

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 October 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 October 1873, 13.

Full cast list.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 October 1873, 9.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 08 November 1873, 254.

Long paragraph that notes each sketch. Diamond and Ryan “…were the freshest of the arrivals, having come direct from Ireland. They are both lads, their vocalism is fair, their feet are nimble and their movements graceful; and in their double songs-and-dances they introduce shillelahs and hods and pathetic poses. Their reception was most hearty…Also complimented by three recalls were the Freeman Sisters, who made their reappearance, and whose popularity with the Opera-housers was put to the severest of tests by their singing at the outset ‘Driven from Home’…Tony Pastor renewed his budget of trifles, but trifles consecrated by a great name in comic melody. The vocal success of the week, however, was Miss Jennie Engel’s new song, ‘I Wish Momma was Here.’ The words are those of a dying motherless child, and the ballad, sweet in its simplicity and heart-reaching in its sentiment, derives added force from the tender pathos the lady throws into it without at all straining nature. Attendance excellent.”