Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Nov 1874, Evening
24 Nov 1874, Matinee
24 Nov 1874, Evening
25 Nov 1874, Evening
26 Nov 1874, Evening
27 Nov 1874, Matinee
27 Nov 1874, Evening
28 Nov 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Martinetti Family;  Griffin and Rice [song and dance];  Tony Pastor;  Frank [minstrel] Girard;  George F. McDonald [actor];  Nelly Germon [actress];  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  Andy [Irish vocalist] Hughes;  Annie [Irish vocalist] Hughes;  Hannah Birch;  Charles [ventriloquist] Young;  Nellie [serio-comic vocalist] Forrester
2)
"Boulevard brigade, The"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Barry;  Andy [Irish vocalist] Hughes
3)
Black swan, The
4)
Stage struck barber, The
5)
That rascal Thomas
aka That rascal Tom
6)
Saucy Nell
Text Author: Unknown playwright
7)
Comic songs
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Nellie [serio-comic vocalist] Forrester

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 November 1874, 4.

“Ladies admitted free on Tuesday and Friday evenings.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 28 November 1874, 278.

“…The freshness of youth combined with beauty of face and form in the person of Miss Nellie Forrester made her serio-comic songs particularly enjoyable. She is a good vocalist, her manners are dashing, and she was several times recalled…”