Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Price: $.25 family circle; $.50 parquet and dress circle; $1 reserved seat, orchestra, balcony chairs

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1874, 2:00 PM
17 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
18 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
19 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
20 Jun 1874, 2:00 PM
20 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mme. Rentz’s Female Minstrels;  A. J. Talbot;  Fred [trapeze artist] Costello;  Jule [Dutch comic] Keen

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 June 1874, 4.

Includes names of members of the female minstrel troupe. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 16 June 1874, 7.

“The entertainment at this house last night was a complete change on that of all previous performances given there. It was variety, with all the principal performers female artists, many of whom exhibited considerable ability in their respective lines of business. The advent of a ful-band [sic] of female minstrels is something of an innovation in New York amusements, and the reception the ladies of the minstrel troupe met with last night shows that New Yorkers are ever ready to go to see anything that is new, fresh or exciting. The house was well filled with a most appreciative audience, but the management might with propriety cut down the entertainment to bring it within reasonable limits so as to enable people to get home before midnight.”