Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Price: $.25, $.35, $.50

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jul 1874, Evening
07 Jul 1874, Matinee
07 Jul 1874, Evening
08 Jul 1874, Evening
09 Jul 1874, Evening
10 Jul 1874, Matinee
10 Jul 1874, Evening
11 Jul 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mme. Rentz’s Female Minstrels;  Marie Delacour’s Parisian Cancan Troupe;  Sallie [banjo] Adams;  Hattie [vocalist] Forrest;  Billy Lester
2)
Banjo solos
Participants:  Sallie [banjo] Adams
3)
Comic songs
Participants:  Hattie [vocalist] Forrest
4)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Billy Lester
5)
Wanted, a nurse
aka Wanted a nurse
6)
That blessed baby, [sketch]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 July 1874, 11.

Grand re-opening, Monday, July 6. “Ladies free on Friday evening.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 July 1874, 126.

“Mrs. Rentz’s Female Minstrels performed to excellent business during the past week at Tony Pastor’s, the attendance being fully up to the standard of the Winter season, notwithstanding the thermometer ranged among the nineties.”