Humpty Dumpty at home

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Theatre (728-30 Bdway.; Aug. 1873-)

Proprietor / Lessee:
S. A. Swalm

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM
14 Apr 1874, 2:00 PM
14 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM
15 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM
16 Apr 1874, 2:00 PM
16 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM
18 Apr 1874, 2:00 PM
18 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Humpty Dumpty at home, [pantomime]
Participants:  Spaulding's Bellringers;  George Washington Lafayette Fox;  Charles Kemble Fox
2)
Humpty Dumpty at home, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Strebinger

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 April 1874, 11.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 25 April 1874, 13.

“…Spaulding’s Bellringers performed ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ with a solo for bass bells, manipulated by W. P. Spaulding; and Georgie Dean Spaulding performed ‘The Carnival of Venice’ upon the harp, and afterwards gave an excellent imitation of a music-box…”