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Vaudeville entertainer, showman and theatre manager. Years active. 1846–1905. Antonio Pastor (May 28, 1837 – August 26, 1908) was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late-nineteenth century. He was sometimes referred to as the "Dean of ...
Tony Pastor (born May 28, 1837, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 26, 1908, Elmhurst, New York) was an American impresario and comic singer, considered the father of vaudeville in the United States. An entertainer from the age of six, Pastor appeared at P.T. Barnum ’s American Museum in New York City as a child prodigy and then appeared ...
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Scope and Contents 20 matches. Scripts and actors' sides make up the bulk of the Tony Pastor Collection which documents much of Pastor's career as a theater manager and, to a lesser extent, as a performer, 1861-1908 (bulk 1866-1890). The collection is organized into eight series: I. Scripts and Actors' Sides, 1866-1883 (18.5 boxes), II.
- Pastor, Tony, 1837-1908
- Tony Pastor Collection
- 1861-1908 (bulk 1866-1890)
Mar 26, 2017 · Tony Pastor’s first theatre, known as Pastor’s Opera House, was at 199–201 Bowery, and he opened it in 1865. In many ways Pastor’s theatre was little different from other variety halls of the period, although the location placed it apart from many of the halls that had moved across to Broadway below Houston and to surrounding streets during the late 1850s.
- Gillian M. Rodger
- 2017
May 28, 2010 · May 28, 2010May 28, 2023 travsd. Tony Pastor: The Father of Vaudeville. The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Antonio “Tony” Pastor was born on this day in New York City in 1832. He first sang publicly at a temperance meeting at the age of 9. By the time he reached puberty, Pastor had ...
Pastor, Tony. views 2,195,511 updated. Tony Pastor, c.1837–1908, American theater manager, b. New York City. Pastor appeared on the stage from childhood and became an experienced acrobat, dancer, and singer. He opened his first theater at 444 Broadway, New York City, in 1861. Thereafter he opened two more Broadway theaters, and in 1881 began ...
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Aug 30, 2016 · A week at Tony Pastor's. In early 1895, young Harry and Bess Houdini got what they believed was their big break; a week's engagement at Tony Pastor's prestigious 14th Street theater in New York. It was their first shot at "the big time." Tony Pastor's was the pre-eminent theater for variety entertainment, or what Pastor coined as "Vaudeville ...
