Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
01 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
02 Dec 1874, 2:00 PM
02 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
03 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
04 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
05 Dec 1874, 2:00 PM
05 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Picaut's Parisian Cancan Dancers;  McCollough and McGarvey [song and dance];  George [vocal/banjo] Warren;  Dick Sands [minstrel dancer];  J. Harry Clifford;  Harry Hart [Ethiopian Comedian];  Lotta Grant;  John Le Faver Manning;  Jimmie [song and dance] Emerson;  Frank [Ethiopian comedian, musician] Jones;  John [comic vocalist] Goodman;  Stevie Sarsfield;  Dolly [song and dance] Emerson;  Nettie Florence
2)
Banjo solos
Participants:  George [vocal/banjo] Warren
3)
Musical mokes, The
Participants:  Frank [Ethiopian comedian, musician] Jones
4)
Clog dance
aka Clog reel
Participants:  Stevie Sarsfield
5)
Bone solo
aka bones solo
Participants:  John [comic vocalist] Goodman
6)
Paris by moonlight, [sketch]
7)
Burlesque on Ole Bull
8)
Cancan
aka Can can

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 November 1874, 11.
2)
Review: New-York Times, 02 December 1874, 4.

No mention of music. 

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 12 December 1874, 294.

“Miss Nettie Florence, a vocalist of merit, who has a fresh voice of considerable power and sweetness, which was advantageously heard in serio-comic songs;…comprised the fresh appearances at the Metropolitan Theatre on Nov. 30…”