Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Price: $.50; $1 reserved seat; $.25 family circle

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Aug 1874, Evening
18 Aug 1874, Evening
19 Aug 1874, Matinee
19 Aug 1874, Evening
20 Aug 1874, Evening
21 Aug 1874, Evening
22 Aug 1874, Matinee
22 Aug 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Walters and Morton [song and dance];  Garnella Brothers;  Nelse Seymour;  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Larry Tooley;  Professor Logrenia [magician];  William [clog dancer] Ashcroft;  Gus [comic singer] Williams;  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding;  Ella [mezzo-soprano] Wesner;  E. D. [ventriloquist] Davies;  Kitty Brooke;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
2)
Smoke, [Ethiopian sketch]
3)
Blarney
Participants:  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding
4)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Walters and Morton [song and dance]
5)
Milliners, The, [sketch]
6)
Tonsorial institute
aka Tonsorial difficulties
7)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Kitty Brooke

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 August 1874, 9.

“Last week of Tony Pastor’s star combination.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 29 August 1874, 174.

“…Kitty Brooke sang a fresh selection of serio-comic songs; the Garnella Brothers repeated their wonderful acrobatic feats; Tony Pastor sang a number of his most popular songs, introducing his album of caricatures; the Fieldings gave their musical sketch of ‘Blarney;’ Ella Wesner continued to elicit warm applause by her character songs and lightning changes; Gus Williams, by his Dutch eccentricities, excited much enthusiasm; Walters and Morton were advantageously seen in song-and-dances; Billy Ashcroft proved himself an apt delineator of the peculiarities of the Irish race, in both singing and dancing…A large business was done.”