Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Price: $1; $.50; $.25

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 1874, 7:45 PM
21 Apr 1874, 7:45 PM
22 Apr 1874, Matinee
22 Apr 1874, 7:45 PM
23 Apr 1874, 7:45 PM
24 Apr 1874, 7:45 PM
25 Apr 1874, Matinee
25 Apr 1874, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wayne and Lovely [song and dance];  California Minstrels;  Master Barney;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Billy West;  George F. [actor] Ketchum;  Jennie [vocalist] Hughes;  Sam [comedian] Rickey;  Winetta Montague;  Ned [Ethiopian comedian] Fox;  Thomas E. [actor] Jackson;  Charles [Ethiopian comedian] Worley;  King Sarbro;  Henry Sinclair
2)
Banjo solos
Participants:  Billy West
3)
Ballads
aka Favorite ballads ; Ballads and warblings; Beautiful ballads
Participants:  Winetta Montague
4)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Wayne and Lovely [song and dance]
5)
Cheap lodgings
6)
On post
7)
Wahoo, wahoo
aka Wa hoo; Wa-hoo
Participants:  Ned [Ethiopian comedian] Fox
8)
Tale of horror, A
9)
Drunkard’s fate, The; or, The curse of the inebriate
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 April 1874, 13.

Cast listing for The Drunkard’s fate.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 May 1874, 38.

Program changes since last week.