Barnum’s American Museum
Event Information
Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]
Price: $.25; .15 children under ten
Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
2 October 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 Mar 1863, All Day31 Mar 1863, All Day
01 Apr 1863, All Day
02 Apr 1863, All Day
03 Apr 1863, All Day
04 Apr 1863, All Day
Program Details
Every day 3 pm and 7:30 pm and Sat also at 1:30 pm.
Program includes other acts.
Program includes other acts.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Citations
1)
“MASTER ROBERT HENRY HENDERSHOT, HERO DRUMMER BOY OF FREDERICKSBURGH . . . MR. HARRISON, THE UNIQUE IMPROVISATORE, who will make you a song on any subject and sing it to you as he makes it . . . THE LEARNED SEAL which plays a musical instrument…”
3)
“[T]he NEW, WEIRD, AND EXCITING DRAMA (First time of its production,) entitled the SHADOW ON THE WALL . . . WITH ITS GRAND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS, Illustrative of the German Legend, that he who commits murder loses his own shadow, and is in himself his own shade.”
COMMENT: Is this the first instance of “The Ghost” effect?
COMMENT: Is this the first instance of “The Ghost” effect?