Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Billy Pastor
M. B. Leavitt

Manager / Director:
Billy Pastor
M. B. Leavitt

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Aug 1875, Evening
10 Aug 1875, Evening
10 Aug 1875, 2:00 PM
11 Aug 1875, Evening
12 Aug 1875, Evening
13 Aug 1875, Evening
13 Aug 1875, 2:00 PM
14 Aug 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Senyahs Trapeze Artists;  Valdis Sisters;  Wayne and Lovely [song and dance];  Mme. Rentz's Female Minstrels;  Bobby Newcomb;  Mrs. R. A. [serio-comic] Brennan;  Fayette Welch;  Charley Lord;  Eugene Blitz;  Mrs. George Ware;  Katie Kane;  Fanny [song and dance] Beane
2)
"Shamus O’Brien"
Text Author: Lover
Participants:  Katie Kane
3)
Song and dance
Participants:  Fanny [song and dance] Beane
4)
"Flags of all nations," [song]
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
Diorama of Ireland

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 August 1875, 11.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 09 August 1875, 5.
3)
Review: New York Sun, 10 August 1875, 3.

Brief; no mention of music. 

4)
Review: New York Herald, 10 August 1875, 7.

“Manager Pastor has succeeded in a fortnight or so in making the Metropolitan a first class variety theatre, in spite of the obstacles that lay in his path, owing to its previous record. A carefully selected and well diversified bill, plentifully studded over with stars of the variety order, has proved so attractive that crowded houses have constantly rewarded the manager’s efforts. Negro minstrelsy, trapeze act, serio-comic songs, farces, character sketches and pantomimic features follow each other in rapid succession, and the bill this week is brighter than any of its predecessors.”

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 21 August 1875, 166.

“…Miss Fanny Beane performed for the first time in public a song-and-dance. She was attired in a costume appropriate to her sex, sufficiently short to display her dancing to good advantage. She sings well, has an excellent voice, and dances in an easy and graceful manner, many of the steps introduced being quite difficult of execution…”