Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Feb 1875, Evening
16 Feb 1875, Matinee
16 Feb 1875, Evening
17 Feb 1875, Evening
18 Feb 1875, Evening
19 Feb 1875, Matinee
19 Feb 1875, Evening
20 Feb 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Female Minstrels;  Claire Sisters [contortionists];  Richmond Sisters [song and dance];  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Larry Tooley;  George F. McDonald [actor];  Nelly Germon [actress];  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  Hannah Birch;  Katie Kane;  Kittie Whitland
2)
Female Blue Beard
aka Female Bluebeard
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
Scenes at Wood's
4)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Katie Kane

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 February 1875, 16.

“Ladies free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 February 1875, 382.

“…The Richmond Sisters reappeared after a few weeks’ absence, and met with a cordial reception. Attired in neat male costumes of green satin, faced with quilted white silk, they gave a number of songs-and-dances in excellent style, and were compelled to respond to numerous encores. Tony Pastor sang three of his freshest songs, which were received with the usual manifestations of delight that ever greet this popular comic vocalist. Katie Kane was seen and heard warbling serio-comic songs…”