Barnum’s American Museum
Event Information
Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]
Price: $.25; .15 children under 10
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
4 October 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
25 May 1863, All Day26 May 1863, All Day
27 May 1863, All Day
28 May 1863, All Day
29 May 1863, All Day
30 May 1863, All Day
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Citations
1)
“[T]he Learned Seal, which plays on a musical instrument.”
3)
“Barnum and Tom Thumb have made peace.” Tom, his wife, Commodore Nutt, and Minnie Warren dance a quadrille.
6)
“Tom Thumb and his little troupe have been doing a splendid business at Barnum’s Museum, the afternoon entertainments especially being largely attended. Commodore Nutt is the most cunning little cuss in the whole crowd. Neither Thumb nor his wife can sing much, Tom’s voice being rather displeasing, and resembling the voice of a boy of that peculiar time when it begins to grow coarse and manish. If you were to hear the others, without seeing them, you would at once arrive at the conclusion that they were little children of half a dozen years.”