Event Information

Venue(s):
Empire Skating Rink

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

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Dec 1873, All Day
30 Dec 1873, All Day
31 Dec 1873, All Day
01 Jan 1874, All Day
02 Jan 1874, All Day
03 Jan 1874, All Day

Program Details

Performances at 2pm and 8pm daily.

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, 28 December 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 December 1873, 9.

“Last week of the brilliant season.”

3)
Review: New-York Times, 29 December 1873, 4.

No mention of music.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 31 December 1873, 4.

“The public must distinctly understand that after Saturday night the treasures of Barnum’s show will disappear from New York, and be seen no more for some time. It is a pleasant thing to remember that ladies are as safe within the Rink, under the moral management inaugurated by the great showman, as in their own parlors…” No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 10 January 1874, 326.

Brief. Barnum’s season “proved moderately successful.”