Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Oct 1874, Evening
06 Oct 1874, Matinee
06 Oct 1874, Evening
07 Oct 1874, Evening
08 Oct 1874, Evening
09 Oct 1874, Matinee
09 Oct 1874, Evening
10 Oct 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Freeman Sisters;  Sanford and Wilson;  May and Porter [banjo duettists];  Griffin and Rice [song and dance];  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Larry Tooley;  George F. McDonald [actor];  Nelly Germon [actress];  Gus [comic singer] Williams;  Lulu Delmay;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
2)
Escaped from the house of refuge
Text Author: Poole
3)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Griffin and Rice [song and dance]
4)
Too much discipline
Participants:  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
5)
Awl’s well that ends well
aka All's well that ends well
Participants:  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
6)
Merry wives of Windsor, The, [burlesque]
7)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Lulu Delmay
8)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Gus [comic singer] Williams

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 October 1874, 4.

“Ladies free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 October 1874, 230.

List of week’s program.