Humpty Dumpty abroad

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Price: $1.50, $1 reserved; $.50; $.40 family circle

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
16 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
17 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
18 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
19 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
20 Dec 1873, 1:30 PM
20 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Humpty Dumpty abroad
Participants:  Rigl Sisters;  Martens Family;  Jackley Family [gymnasts];  George Washington Lafayette Fox;  Charles Kemble Fox;  Fanny Hayward;  Karl [acrobat] Lind
2)
Humpty Dumpty abroad, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Strebinger

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 December 1873, 7.

“Every feature fresh, new, and bright!...an auxiliary force of over 300.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 December 1873, 4.

Multiple cards on this page, including one advertising a portrait of Fox as Humpty Dumpty that will appear in the Evening Graphic of 12/16/1873.

3)
Review: New York Post, 19 December 1873, 2.

“…There were present on Tuesday evening nearly three thousand persons, and over that number on the Saturday previous.” No mention of music.

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 December 1873, 310.

The page number at the upper left reads 810, but that is clearly a typo and should read 310. No mention of music.