Event Information

Venue(s):
P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome

Price: $.50; $.25 children under nine

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Nov 1873, All Day
11 Nov 1873, All Day
12 Nov 1873, All Day
13 Nov 1873, All Day
14 Nov 1873, All Day
15 Nov 1873, All Day

Program Details

Performances daily at 2pm and 8pm of “a new and gorgeous grand entrée pageant.”

Also billed as “P. T. Barnum’s Great Show” and “Barnum’s Museum, Menagerie, and Grand Double Circus.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 November 1873, 7.

Long list of performers. “Artists of European renown will appear in rapid succession, while the new and gorgeous grand entree scene of oriental splendor and of bewildering beauty cannot fail to excite the wonder and admiration of all.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 November 1873, 4.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 November 1873, 4.

Notes that the circus will soon close.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 November 1873, 5.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 November 1873, 7.

Announces a “gross receipt benefit” on 11/14/73 “in aid of the Equestrian Benevolent Association.”

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 November 1873, 270.

“When the mercury falls to the freezing point, it is somewhat uncomfortable to sit under a canvas, even if the performances offered are unusually attractive. Such being the present condition of affairs, the management of Barnum’s Great show [sic] closed their exhibitions with the performances of Saturday evening, Nov. 15.”