Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

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

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jul 1874, Evening
21 Jul 1874, Matinee
21 Jul 1874, Evening
22 Jul 1874, Evening
23 Jul 1874, Evening
24 Jul 1874, Matinee
24 Jul 1874, Evening
25 Jul 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Hurley and Marr [song and dance team];  Mme. Rentz’s Female Minstrels;  Marie Delacour’s Parisian Cancan Troupe;  Lottie La Pointe;  Hattie [vocalist] Forrest;  Billy Lester;  Ada [song and dance] Freeman
2)
Highland fling
Participants:  Lottie La Pointe
3)
Cancan
aka Can can
4)
Comic songs
Participants:  Hattie [vocalist] Forrest
5)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Ada [song and dance] Freeman

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 July 1874, 11.

“Ladies free on Friday evening.” 

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 August 1874, 142.

“…A quadrille à la clodoche, and a vocalist who sang songs in the French language, were recently introduced. In the olio, Hurley and Marr performed Irish specialties and were thrice recalled…”