Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Manager / Director:
John F. [1833-93] Poole

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Jun 1875, 7:45 PM
22 Jun 1875, 7:45 PM
23 Jun 1875, 2:00 PM
23 Jun 1875, 7:45 PM
24 Jun 1875, 7:45 PM
25 Jun 1875, 7:45 PM
26 Jun 1875, 2:00 PM
26 Jun 1875, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Siegrist Family;  Tierney and Cronin [song and dance];  George W. Howard Griffin;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Billy West;  Prof. [glass tumbler player] O'Reardon;  Johnny Hart;  Mlle. [aerialist] Zoe;  Sam [minstrel tenor] Holdsworth;  E. D. Gooding;  Pat Rooney;  John [Ethiopian dancer, comic vocalist] Gilbert
2)
Fire fiend, The
3)
Hampton Institute students burlesque
aka Colored Hamtown students, The
Participants:  George W. Howard Griffin;  Sam [minstrel tenor] Holdsworth;  E. D. Gooding;  John [Ethiopian dancer, comic vocalist] Gilbert
4)
Man of few words, A
5)
Double jig
Participants:  Tierney and Cronin [song and dance]
6)
Haunted house, The, [sketch]
aka Echo
Participants:  Johnny Hart
7)
Tumbleronicon music
Participants:  Prof. [glass tumbler player] O'Reardon

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 June 1875, 11.
2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 June 1875, 7.

“…Mr. William West handled the banjo skillfully and asked neat musical conundrums. The skilled playing of Prof. Reardon on ‘The Tumbleronicon’ was heard with admiration for the deft touch with which he brings melody out of the musical glasses. ..The Hamtown students, --Messrs. Gooding, Gilbert, Griffin, and Holdsworth—used their remarkably sweet and concordant voices with the usual effect in staging serio-comic [illegible]…”