New-York Circus

Event Information

Venue(s):
Hippotheatron

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

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 June 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
21 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
22 Dec 1869, 2:30 PM
22 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
23 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
24 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
25 Dec 1869, 2:30 PM
25 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

“During the piece will be given the GRAND PARISIAN QUADRILLES, BY FORTY LILIPUTIAN LORDS AND LADIES.” Among the performers were also “no less than SIXTY LITTLE CHILDREN.” Equestrian and acrobatic exercises preceded the pantomime.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Frank [equestrian] Melville;  Emma [actress] White
2)
Cinderella; or, The little glass slipper
aka Cendrillon; Cinderella; or, The good fairy and the little glass slipper
Text Author: Kelly
Participants:  Frank [equestrian] Melville (role: Prince);  Emma [actress] White (role: Cinderella)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 December 1869, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 19 December 1869, 4.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 December 1869, 6.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 December 1869, 2.
5)
Announcement: New York Sun, 20 December 1869, 1.

Brief.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 December 1869, 3.
7)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 December 1869, 4.
8)
Review: New-York Times, 21 December 1869, 4.

Positive review; no mention of music.

9)
Review: New York Herald, 22 December 1869, 8.

No mention of music.

10)
Announcement: New York Sun, 23 December 1869, 2.

Only citation to mention Melville and White. “…if the manager can manage to warm the Circus a little more, we predict that he will have full houses every night.”

11)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 December 1869, 303.
12)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 25 December 1869, 302.
13)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 January 1870, 310, col. 5 .

Positive; no mention of music.