European Circus

Event Information

Venue(s):
Unnamed venue [Broadway and 34th]

Price: $.75 reserved; $.50 reserved children under 10; $.50; $.25 children under 10

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 August 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Apr 1869, All Day
20 Apr 1869, All Day
21 Apr 1869, All Day
22 Apr 1869, All Day
23 Apr 1869, All Day
24 Apr 1869, All Day

Program Details

Two performances beginning at 2 pm and 7:30 pm daily.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Carlotta De Berg

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 April 1869, 7.

“The first grand street pageant will take place to-morrow…look out for the live lion loose in the streets.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 April 1869.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 19 April 1869, 5.

“This morning the entire troupe and menagerie forming this organization are to parade through the main streets.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 April 1869, 7.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 20 April 1869, 5.

No mention of music.

6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 April 1869, 5.

Two announcements in the same column. “The company numbers over 100 performers.” “Mlle. de Berg is now a member of this troupe, which likewise includes many other circus celebrities.”

7)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 April 1869, 4.
8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 24 April 1869, 22.

“The European Circus, that exhibited in this city last November on the lot of ground located on Thirty-fourth street, near Broadway, has reorganized, and opens on the same site this evening, with the following company:—[lists performers].”

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 May 1869, 30.

Postive review; no mention of music.