Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

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

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jul 1874, Evening
28 Jul 1874, Matinee
28 Jul 1874, Evening
29 Jul 1874, Evening
30 Jul 1874, Evening
31 Jul 1874, Matinee
31 Jul 1874, Evening
01 Aug 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mme. Rentz’s Female Minstrels;  Tierney and Cronin [song and dance];  Zoe [vocalist] De Forrest;  Georgia [vocalist] May
2)
Cancan
aka Can can

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 July 1874, 11.

“Ladies free on Friday evening.” 

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 08 August 1874, 150.

“…The magnet is, however, the cancan, the chief features of which consist of agile dancing and a liberal display of shapely limbs…”