Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Jan 1875, Evening
05 Jan 1875, Matinee
05 Jan 1875, Evening
06 Jan 1875, Evening
07 Jan 1875, Evening
08 Jan 1875, Matinee
08 Jan 1875, Evening
09 Jan 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Composer(s): Donato
Text Author: Harrigan
Participants:  Tony Pastor
4)
aka You never miss the lager till the keg runs dry
Composer(s): Howard
6)
aka Favorite ballads ; Ballads and warblings; Beautiful ballads
Participants:  Josie [vocalist] Foster

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 January 1875, 2.

“Ladies free on Friday evening only.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 January 1875, 334.

“…Miss Selwyn, who has ever been popular with local audiences, shows improvement in her character songs in male attire. Her wardrobe has been replenished, and fresh songs have been added to her repertory since her last visit. La Belle Gabrielle, a little miss of eleven or twelve Summers, gave quite creditable performances upon musical glasses and a wood-and-straw instrument. Kitty Whitland, who has a pretty face, a tall, lithe figure, and a profusion of blonde hair, won approbation in songs-and dances. She wore male attire, and was modest and quiet in her deportment. Katie Howard sang several familiar serio-comic songs quite satisfactorily, and won the approval of her auditors…Tony Pastor sang a new song entitled ‘The East-side of Town,’ written and dedicated to him by Edward Harrigan, and the music composed by Marcel De Donato, the gentleman who plays the cornet in Mr. Pastor’s orchestra. The air is taking, and we think destined to become quite popular, while the words give Tony an admirable opportunity to display those qualities which have rendered him so popular with his patrons. It was loudly applauded…”