Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Mar 1875, Evening
23 Mar 1875, Evening
23 Mar 1875, 2:30 PM
24 Mar 1875, Evening
25 Mar 1875, Evening
26 Mar 1875, Evening
26 Mar 1875, 2:30 PM
27 Mar 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety];  Harry Kernell;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry
2)
"Nicodemus Johnson," [song]
Composer(s): Murphy
Participants:  Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety]
3)
Centennial Committee, The
4)
Old curiosity shop, The, [sketch]
5)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 March 1875, 4.

Billy Barry benefit Tuesday evening.

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 27 March 1875, 414.

“Tony Pastor will retire from the management of his Opera-house, 201 Bowery, after the performance of Saturday evening, March 27, and it will be thereafter known as the Bowery Opera-house. For ten years he has managed it with tact and skill, and given much pleasure to the denizens of that section of the city, who will hear with regret that he is about to depart from their midst. He will continue to hold the lease of the property, but will sub-let it.”

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 03 April 1875, 6.

Close of the regular season on March 27. Billy Barry benefit on Tuesday evening; Frank Girard annual benefit on Thursday evening; benefit of various attaches of the house on Saturday evening.