Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

Manager / Director:
John Le Faver Manning

Price: $.25; $.50; $1

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jan 1875, 7:45 PM
26 Jan 1875, 7:45 PM
27 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
28 Jan 1875, 7:45 PM
29 Jan 1875, 7:45 PM
30 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
30 Jan 1875, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Jackley Family [gymnasts];  Ida [vocalist] Burt;  Tim [Ethiopian comedian] Morris
2)
Haunted house, The, [sketch]
aka Echo
3)
Broadway and the Bowery
Text Author: Poole
4)
Comic songs
Participants:  Ida [vocalist] Burt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 January 1875, 16.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 26 January 1875, 7.

Brief; no mention of music.  

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 28 January 1875, 7.

No performance Wednesday evening, due to an injunction served on William Shapter at 5 pm.