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:
31 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
22 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
23 Dec 1874, Matinee
23 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
24 Dec 1874, Matinee
24 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
25 Dec 1874, Matinee
25 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
26 Dec 1874, Matinee
26 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];   All Right;  Mlle. [high wire performer] Victoria
2)
Fete at Pekin, The; or, Holiday of the celestials
3)
Blue Beard, [semi-equestrian burlesque pantomime]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 December 1874, 11.

Blue Beard will begin on Wednesday. 

2)
Review: New York Sun, 21 December 1874, 2.

Review of the Sunday night rehearsal of Blue Beard; no matinees until Wednesday, due to rehearsals; no mention of music.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 December 1874, 6.
4)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 24 December 1874, 8.

Notes that Barnum’s current holiday program is curated especially for children. Blue Beard has no connection to the Offenbach operetta; in Barnum’s version the character is a “powerful Pasha.” Long description of the pantomime, but no specific mention of music.

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 December 1874, 4.

No mention of music. 

6)
Review: New-York Times, 24 December 1874, 4.

No mention of music. 

7)
Review: New York Sun, 24 December 1874, 1.

No mention of music. 

8)
Review: New York Post, 24 December 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 January 1875, 318.

No mention of music.