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Tony Pastor 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.
Background
He was born on May 28, 1837 in New York. After his Spanish father (Antonio Pastor) came to New York and met his future wife Cornelia Buckley, from New Haven, Connecticut, they lived in Manhattan.
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Their third child, and first son, Antonio Pastor, was born in Manhattan on May 28, 1832, at his parents' residence at 400 Greenwich Street, in what is now the financial district of lower Manhattan. His father was a Spanish immigrant who supported his family as a barber and part-time musician.
Career
Tony Pastor was on the stage from childhood as a clown, a ballad singer, and a comedian, but he first came to the attention of New York's public shortly after the Civil War, when he to