Tony Pastor’s Opera House

Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Feb 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Ada St. Clair [vocal];  Johnny Wild;  Samuel M. Sharpley;  Leslie Chase (Lew) [minstrel] Brimmer;  William Carleton [comedian, singer, composer];  Bertha Loraine [dancer]
2)
New York detective, The
Participants:  Tony Pastor (role: Happy Billy the Bootblack)
3)
Corkographicalities
aka Corkographs; Corkographics
Participants:  Johnny Wild;  Leslie Chase (Lew) [minstrel] Brimmer
4)
"Pat McCann"
Composer(s): Carleton [comedian, singer, composer]
Participants:  William Carleton [comedian, singer, composer]
5)
"Irish soldier boy, The"
Composer(s): Carleton [comedian, singer, composer]
6)
Contraband College, The; or, The Hilton Head Institute

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 24 February 1866.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 February 1866, 5.

     “After Mr. Carleton has given his original songs, ‘Pat McCann’ and ‘The Irish Soldier Boy,’ the Contraband College, or the Hilton Head Institute, with a perfect budget of other good things, will be performed.  Tony Pastor is ably aided by Sam Sharpley.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 February 1866, 7.

     “[T]he celebrated Irish comedian from the Theatre Royal, Dublin.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 10 March 1866, 382.

     Carleton “is equal to any of the Irish vocalists we have here now, or have had since the days of Ogden. . . . He sings an Irish song very nicely, and what is most desired, pleases every one.”