Event Information

Venue(s):
Empire Skating Rink

Price: $.50; $25 children under 9

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Dec 1873, All Day
16 Dec 1873, All Day
17 Dec 1873, All Day
18 Dec 1873, All Day
19 Dec 1873, All Day
20 Dec 1873, All Day

Program Details

Performances at 2pm and 8pm daily.

The “new battle scene” announced for Thursday night was a reenactment of the Battle of Bunker Hill. For some reason, the citations do not provide the title of the scene (Heroes of ’76) until the following week.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus
2)
Heroes of '76, The

Citations

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

Cast list. “Thursday evening, Dec. 18, and every evening following, a grand military spectacle and battle scene in which hundreds of men and horses will appear nightly.”

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

New battle scene added to program from Thursday onward.

3)
Review: New York Sun, 19 December 1873, 1.

Long description of Heroes of ’76. Indicates “martial music” is part of the spectacle.

4)
Review: New York Post, 19 December 1873, 2.

Review of the Heroes of ’76. No mention of music.

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 December 1873, 12.

Reviews military spectacle, entitled “The Battle of Bunker Hill,” given on 12/18/73. “…the English troupes suddenly appeared coming down the hill, and were met by the Americans, foot, horse, and dragoons, and a sanguinary scene then ensued, enlivened by the strains of martial music and the detonations of explosions…”

6)
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.