Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Conductor(s):
Joseph [conductor] Braham

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Sep 1874, Evening
29 Sep 1874, Matinee
29 Sep 1874, Evening
30 Sep 1874, Evening
01 Oct 1874, Evening
02 Oct 1874, Matinee
02 Oct 1874, Evening
03 Oct 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Freeman Sisters;  Sanford and Wilson;  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Larry Tooley;  Nelly Germon [actress];  Gus [comic singer] Williams;  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding;  Ella [mezzo-soprano] Wesner;  Lulu Delmay
2)
"Perfection," [song]
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Ella [mezzo-soprano] Wesner
3)
"Silver threads among the gold"
Composer(s): Danks
Text Author: Rexford
Participants:  Freeman Sisters
4)
On board of the Mary Jane
Participants:  Freeman Sisters
5)
Jig
Participants:  Larry Tooley
6)
Tipperary couple, The
Participants:  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding
7)
Bowery by day and night, The
Text Author: Unknown playwright
8)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Lulu Delmay
9)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Gus [comic singer] Williams
10)
You don't say so
Participants:  Sanford and Wilson
11)
Letter carrier
12)
Scenes on the Mississippi
aka Life on the Mississippi
Text Author: Wambold

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 September 1874, 4.

“Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 10 October 1874, 222.

“…Business good…”