Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jan 1875, Evening
12 Jan 1875, Matinee
12 Jan 1875, Evening
13 Jan 1875, Evening
14 Jan 1875, Evening
15 Jan 1875, Matinee
15 Jan 1875, Evening
16 Jan 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Tony Pastor
6)
Participants:  Tony Pastor

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 January 1875, 9.

“Ladies free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 23 January 1875, 342.

“…Miss Morgan sang a number of fresh songs, in which her fine soprano voice was heard to great advantage, and which elicited liberal applause. Miss Clifton’s chief attraction consists of the wonderful celerity with which she makes complete changes of her gorgeously rich female costumes. As a vocalist she is fair, and her songs were so familiar to the public ear that the boys in the gallery sang with due effect the choruses of them. Still her performances were successful. Blanche Selwyn continued her male character songs, winning liberal applause for her vocalism and easy, off-hand manners. Tony Pastor sang a new song entitled ‘The Fairy Queen,’ which seems destined to become quite popular, as the air is catching. In response to encores, he gave the freshest from his repertory…”