Little Boy Blue

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum and Van Amburgh’s Museum

Price: $.30

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jul 1867, 2:30 PM
22 Jul 1867, 8:00 PM
23 Jul 1867, 2:30 PM
23 Jul 1867, 8:00 PM
24 Jul 1867, 2:30 PM
24 Jul 1867, 8:00 PM
25 Jul 1867, 2:30 PM
25 Jul 1867, 8:00 PM
26 Jul 1867, 2:30 PM
26 Jul 1867, 8:00 PM
27 Jul 1867, 2:30 PM
27 Jul 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Little boy blue; or, Hush-a-bye baby, and Patty and her pitcher
Text Author: Fox
Participants:  Barnum’s Combination Pantomime Company;  George Washington Lafayette Fox;  Lavinia Warren;  Charles Sherwood (Tom Thumb) Stratton

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 July 1867, 7.
2)
Review: New York Post, 23 July 1867, 2.

Brief: “The pantomime season began at Barnum’s last evening, with the production of Mr. G. L. Fox’s ‘Little Boy Blue,’ which was given in a most satisfactory manner.”