Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Conductor(s):
Joseph [conductor] Braham

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Sep 1874, Evening
15 Sep 1874, Matinee
15 Sep 1874, Evening
16 Sep 1874, Evening
17 Sep 1874, Evening
18 Sep 1874, Matinee
18 Sep 1874, Evening
19 Sep 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Kitty Brooke
7)
aka Irish melodies; Popular, national, and Irish airs; Hibernian songs

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 September 1874, 2.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 September 1874, 206.

“…Then Kitty Brooke warbled serio-comic songs and danced a hornpipe, all of which met with favor… Jennie Morgan’s vocal efforts pleased her auditors, as was evinced by their liberal applause. Billy Ashcroft’s excellence in Irish songs-and-dances is so well known that further comment at the present writing is not needed…”