Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Aug 1874, 8:00 PM
01 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
02 Sep 1874, 2:00 PM
02 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
03 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
04 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
05 Sep 1874, 2:00 PM
05 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Picaut's Parisian Cancan Dancers;  Fanny Herring
2)
Cancan
aka Can can

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 August 1874, 7.
2)
Review: New-York Times, 01 September 1874, 4.

Brief; “…The can-can is still in favor with the audiences of the Metropolitan.” 

3)
Article: New York Sun, 01 September 1874, 1.

Warrant for the theatre’s closing for the protection of public morals; arrest of the ballet girls; “They were all young, but none were pretty off the stage;” discharge of the musicians without arrest. 

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 12 September 1874, 190.

Arrest of the cancan dancers, members of the orchestra, the proprietor, and manager on Monday night; continuation of performances under police surveillance; “consequently the cancan has become a very modest dance.”