Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Dec 1874, Evening
22 Dec 1874, Matinee
22 Dec 1874, Evening
23 Dec 1874, Evening
24 Dec 1874, Matinee
24 Dec 1874, Evening
25 Dec 1874, Matinee
25 Dec 1874, Evening
26 Dec 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Richmond Sisters [song and dance];  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  Larry Tooley;  J. C. Stewart;  Nelly Germon [actress];  Jimmie [song and dance] Emerson;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  Dolly [song and dance] Emerson;  Ella [serio-comic vocalist] Mayo;  Master John [song and dance] Collins
2)
Double songs and dances
Participants:  Richmond Sisters [song and dance]
3)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Master John [song and dance] Collins
4)
O'Connell's dream
Participants:  Jimmie [song and dance] Emerson;  Dolly [song and dance] Emerson
5)
Blinks and jinks
6)
Christmas pudding, The
7)
Elephant, The
aka Taming the elephant; Baby elephant; Pet elephant; Who owns dis elephant?
8)
Flats and sharps
aka Sharps and flats of New York
9)
Dutch songs
Participants:  Larry Tooley
10)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 December 1874, 4.

“Ladies admitted free on Tuesday and Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 January 1875, 318.

“The Richmond Sisters, who have been endowed by nature with pretty faces and trim figures, which were well displayed in male attire of light-blue velvet lined and faced with pink silk, made their metropolitan debut at Tony Pastor’s on Dec. 21, performing double songs and dances, in which they evinced the possession of sweet, musical voices, and no little skill in dancing; and the audience testified their approbation of the performances…The attendance continued fair…”