Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $1; $.75 balcony; $.50 family circle; $.25 gallery; $6 private boxes

Event Type:
Band, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Apr 1874, 7:30 PM
28 Apr 1874, 2:00 PM
28 Apr 1874, 7:30 PM
29 Apr 1874, 2:00 PM
29 Apr 1874, 7:30 PM
30 Apr 1874, 2:00 PM
30 Apr 1874, 7:30 PM
01 May 1874, 2:00 PM
01 May 1874, 7:30 PM
02 May 1874, 2:00 PM
02 May 1874, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Grand street parade on Monday morning.

Performers and/or Works Performed

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

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 April 1874, 7.

Grand opening postponed until Monday, April 27.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 April 1874, 11.

For Thursday, April 23.

3)
Review: New-York Times, 28 April 1874, 7.

No mention of music.

4)
Review: New York Sun, 28 April 1874, 2.

Brief; no mention of music.

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 April 1874, 5.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Post, 28 April 1874, 2.

No mention of music.

7)
Review: New York Herald, 28 April 1874, 9.

No mention of music.

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 May 1874, 38.

Description of the Hippodrome, to be opened to the public for the first time.

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 09 May 1874, 46.

No mention of music.