Tony Pastor’s Opera House

Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Feb 1867, Evening
19 Feb 1867, Evening
20 Feb 1867, Matinee
20 Feb 1867, Evening
21 Feb 1867, Evening
22 Feb 1867, Matinee
22 Feb 1867, Evening
23 Feb 1867, Matinee
23 Feb 1867, Evening

Program Details

Performed by full military brass band; one hundred actors/singers; written expressly for Tony Pastor’s Opera House; first scene taken from the London comedy, Ours.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
New York volunteer, The
aka Back to the Bowery; Last of Libby Prison, The
Text Author: Poole

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 February 1867, 1.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 23 February 1867, 366, 2d col., top.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 23 February 1867, 5.

“….Tony Pastor opened his Opera House in the afternoon, and it was, as usual, well filled with the admirers of Negro eccentricities, ballet exhibitions and comic singing. The performances closed with Poole’s last drama, entitled The New York Volunteers, or the Last of the Libby Prison.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 March 1867, 374, 2d col., middle.

No mention of music.