H. H. Barnum Juvenile Troupe

Event Information

Venue(s):
Brooke’s Assembly Rooms

Proprietor / Lessee:
H. H. Barnum

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 November 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Aug 1863, Evening

Program Details

H. H. Barnum Juvenile Troupe

Mr. H. Cunningham, dir. of burletta; Mr. J. Kerrigan, manager of troupe; F.N. Cook, drill leader.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  H. H. Barnum Juvenile Troupe
2)
Swan cottage

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 August 1863, 7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“H. H. Barnum Juvenile Troupe will give one of their Drawing Room Performances . . . introducing a variety of the latest Songs and Dances.  A beautiful Tableau.  The drill under the direction of F. N. Cook of the Seventy-first regiment in their zouave costumes.  Also the Swan Cottage, a musical burletta under the direction of Mr. H. Cunningham, of Barnum’s Museum.  Performance is all done by little girls from seven to thirteen years of age, under the direction of Mr. J. Kerrigan, Manager.”