Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $1.50 grand orchestra; $1 orchestra; $.50 family circle

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
14 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
15 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
15 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
16 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
16 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
17 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
18 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
18 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
19 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
19 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus;  Jackley Family [gymnasts];  Mlle. [high wire performer] Victoria
2)
Fete at Pekin, The; or, Holiday of the celestials

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 December 1874, 11.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 December 1874, 6.
3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 December 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 26 December 1874, 310.

“…a fair business has been done.” Preparations for forthcoming attraction, Blue Beard.