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:
14 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Aug 1875, Evening
17 Aug 1875, Evening
17 Aug 1875, 2:00 PM
18 Aug 1875, Evening
19 Aug 1875, Evening
20 Aug 1875, Evening
20 Aug 1875, 2:00 PM
21 Aug 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Allen and Lester [song and dance];  Waldron and Smith [song and dance];  Bobby Newcomb;  Andrew J. Leavitt;  Kate [actress] Raymond;  O. B. [actor] Collins;  Jennie Wade;  James [Irish comic singer] Collins;  Martha Wren;  Mlle. [aerialist] Zoe;  Charley Lord;  Maggie [vocalist] Gray
2)
Comic songs
Participants:  Jennie Wade
3)
Trovatore, Il, "Ai nostri monti "
aka Act 4 duet; Tower scene music
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  James [Irish comic singer] Collins;  Martha Wren
4)
Through by rail
Participants:  James [Irish comic singer] Collins;  Martha Wren
5)
Fun in the parlor
6)
Diorama of Ireland
7)
Dick, the newsboy
aka Dick the newsboy
Text Author: Unknown playwright
8)
Leap for life
aka Trapeze perileuse
Participants:  Mlle. [aerialist] Zoe

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 14 August 1875, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 August 1875, 9.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 17 August 1875, 7.

“A new variety bill was presented at this theatre last night. Two or three sketches were on the programme, and any number of comic and sentimental songs were sung..”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 28 August 1875, 174.

“…Jennie Wade met with considerable favor by singing serio-comic songs…and with Miss Wren he [James Collins] subsequently sang the tower scene from ‘Il Trovatore’…Andy Leavitt created no little laughter by his eccentric songs, with banjo accompaniment…Bobby Newcomb continued his artistic songs-and-dances, and gave imitations of operatic artists, and told a funny story…”