Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

Price: $.25; $.50; $1

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
15 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
16 Dec 1874, 2:00 PM
16 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
18 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
19 Dec 1874, 2:00 PM
19 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Picaut's Parisian Cancan Dancers;  Agnes Sutherland;  George [vocal/banjo] Warren;  J. Harry Clifford;  Harry Hart [Ethiopian Comedian];  Lotta Grant;  John Le Faver Manning;  Maggie [vocalist] Gray;  Cora [vocalist] Cushman;  John [comic vocalist] Goodman;  Stevie Sarsfield
2)
Clog dance
aka Clog reel
Participants:  Stevie Sarsfield
3)
Songs and dances
4)
Scottish ballad
aka Scotch ballad
Participants:  Agnes Sutherland
5)
Double songs and dances
6)
Cancan
aka Can can
7)
Man with the black valise
aka Man with the black bag
8)
You don't say so

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 December 1874, 11.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 December 1874, 310.

“At the Metropolitan Theatre the attendance was quite large during the expired week, doubtless caused by vague rumors that the police were about to make a descent upon the theatre on account of the ‘irregularities’ introduced in the cancan, which continues the attractive feature…”