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- In 1865, Pastor opened his own theatre, Tony Pastor's Opera House.
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In 1865, Pastor opened his own theatre, Tony Pastor's Opera House. The theater was located on the Bowery in partnership with minstrel show performer, Sam Sharpley, whom he later bought out. The same year he organized traveling minstrel troupes who toured the country annually between April and October.
Tony Pastor (April 26, 1833-August 26, 1908) was known as the Father of Vaudeville for his contributions as a performer and manager of variety entertainment. Pastor began his career as a circus clown, later shifting to comic singer on stage, and finally to manager and entrepreneur. As an entertainer, Pastor was known for his large repertoire of ...
Tony Pastor, a child prodigy entertainer, opened his own theater in 1865. He welcomed families and banned smoking and drinking, making it a safe place for women to attend. Experience Tony Pastor's Vaudeville Theater today!
Mar 26, 2017 · A leading theatre owner at the turn of the twentieth century, Tony Pastor (1837–1908) was especially influential in the fields of variety and vaudeville. Among his most notable efforts was his success in catering to mixed-gender audiences.
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From the age of eight, Pastor was performing for the delight of his Lower West-Side neighbors, who would occasionally throw a few pennies his way. In 1843, he made his official public debut for the Hand in Hand Society, a temperance association with which he would be associated for several years. In the fall of 1846 he became affiliated with P.T.Ba...
As the burnt cork -smeared face was coming into vogue, Pastor immediately became a part of that aspect of show business, which served him well for many years. For some years he continued working in various ‘menageries’ and circuses until he made his variety debut in Philadelphia at Frank Rivers’ Melodeon in the autumn of 1860. Following that Pastor...
Tony Pastor was indefatigable in his steady performances of Civil War songs, including “March for the Union,” “We are Marching to the War,” “Ye Sons of Columbia” and his own compositions celebrating the various victories of the Northern troops. Some of these songs were “The Monitor and the Merrimac,” “The Peaceful Battle of Manassas,'” “Sumter, the...
“Tony Pastor’s New Fourteenth Street Theatre” was situated on the north side of East 14th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue. Here Pastor would present such musical stars as Lillian Russell, May Irvin, Florence Merton, Kitty O’Neil, Niles and Evans, Sheehan and Jones and others, many of whom were Pastor discoveries. A woman called Sophie ...
Pastor’s theatre began its decline in the early years of the 20th century, due, in no small way, to the proliferation of cheap nickel shows that seemed to sprout up overnight. Tony was getting older and unable to keep up the pace of performing that he had set for himself, and the palsy that had just been an irritation was now taking hold of him mor...
And that's the case yet again with TENDERLY: THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL, which debuts Nov. 15 through Dec. 28 in the Playhouse's intimate Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre. Gavin MacLeod...
(1837–1908) American blackface minstrel and entrepreneur. Pastor transformed the lower-class entertainment of minstrelsy and vaudeville into respectable family fare. He began at Barnum's American Museum in New York in 1846. ... From: Pastor, Tony in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre.
