Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Oct 1874, Evening
20 Oct 1874, Evening
20 Oct 1874, 2:30 PM
21 Oct 1874, Evening
22 Oct 1874, Evening
23 Oct 1874, Evening
23 Oct 1874, 2:30 PM
24 Oct 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Freeman Sisters;  Birdue and Cotton [song and dance];  Sanford and Wilson;  Tony Pastor;  Jennie Benson;  Maggie (La Petite) Benson;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
2)
Jig
Participants:  Maggie (La Petite) Benson
3)
Clog dance
aka Clog reel
Participants:  Birdue and Cotton [song and dance];  Jennie Benson
4)
Musical mokes, The
Participants:  Sanford and Wilson
5)
Unappreciated talent
Participants:  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
6)
Milliners, The, [sketch]
Participants:  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
7)
Broadway and the Bowery
Text Author: Poole
8)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 October 1874, 11.

“Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 31 December 1874, 246.

“Baby Benson is quite as attractive and piquant as when last seen in this city, and her song-and-dances were witnessed with much pleasure. She danced a jig in a manner that would be creditable to performers of more than double her age. Cotton and Birdue are good song-and-dance performers, and during the evening they gave exhibitions of their skill in clog-dancing. Jennie Benson also did a clog dance, marked by skill and rapidity of execution…”