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)

08 Jun 1863, All Day
09 Jun 1863, All Day
10 Jun 1863, All Day
11 Jun 1863, All Day
12 Jun 1863, All Day
13 Jun 1863, All Day

Program Details

The Quartette: Every morning (11 am), afternoon and evening
Plays: Every afternoon (3 pm) and evening (7:45)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Washington Morrison Nutt;  Lavinia Warren;  Charles Sherwood (Tom Thumb) Stratton;  Minnie Warren
2)
Harvest storm, The
Text Author: Hazlewood
3)
Nervous man, The
aka Nervous man and the man of nerve, The
Text Author: Bernard

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 08 June 1863, 2.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 08 June 1863, 8.

 
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 June 1863, 7.
“THE SMALLEST QUARTETTE OF HUMANITY of perfect form and feature, but also INTERESTING AND TALENTED PERFORMERS, They sing, dance, give the Grecian Statues, personate various characters, &c. . . . COM. NUTT AS A COMIC SINGER, and indeed as a COMIC ORATOR AND PERFORMER, has few equals.”
 
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 June 1863, 5.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 June 1863, 7.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 12 June 1863, 2.
7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 June 1863, 7.
8)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 June 1863, 7.