Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
08 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
09 Sep 1874, 2:00 PM
09 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
10 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
11 Sep 1874, 8:00 PM
12 Sep 1874, 2:00 PM
12 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;  Frank Bell;  Frank A. [gymnast] Gibbons;  Mlle. Zittella
2)
Cancan
aka Can can
3)
Field of the cloth of gold, The
Text Author: Brough

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 September 1874, 4.
2)
Article: New York Clipper, 19 September 1874, 198.

Complaint dismissed against Mr. Shapter, proprietor, on charges of keeping a disorderly house for permitting performances of the cancan. Frank Gibbons’s trapeze accident.