Event Information

Venue(s):
P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $.30; $.15 children

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
04 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
05 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
05 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
06 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
06 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
07 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
07 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
08 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
08 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
09 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
09 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM

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, 03 January 1875, 11.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 09 January 1875, 10.

No mention of music. 

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 January 1875, 334.

“The reduction of prices at the Hippodrome has had a tendency to increase the number of spectators in the cheaper parts of the auditorium, while a falling-off was perceptible in the in the highest-priced places. All the spectacles have been abandoned, and the services of the large ballet corps dispensed with. The programme included all the various races and glimpses of Donnybrook Fair and and of Indian life on the Plains…”