Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Conductor(s):
Joseph [conductor] Braham

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1874, Evening
22 Sep 1874, Matinee
22 Sep 1874, Evening
23 Sep 1874, Evening
24 Sep 1874, Evening
25 Sep 1874, Matinee
25 Sep 1874, Evening
26 Sep 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Walters and Morton [song and dance];  Garnella Brothers;  Sanford and Wilson;  Tony Pastor;  Larry Tooley;  Gus [comic singer] Williams;  Prof. [glass tumbler player] O'Reardon;  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding;  Lulu Delmay;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
2)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor
3)
Irish thespians
Participants:  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John Field
4)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Gus [comic singer] Williams
5)
Jim Crow alive again
aka Jim Crow alive
Text Author: Cavanaugh
6)
Troubles in the kitchen
7)
Persecuted Dutchman, The; or, The original John Schmidt
aka Dutchman in distress; Rival Dutchmen
Text Author: Barry

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 September 1874, 11.

“Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 03 October 1874, 214.

“...Gus Williams gave the freshest of his Dutch character-songs and sayings…”