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:
4 November 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
28 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
29 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
29 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
30 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
30 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
31 Dec 1874, 2:30 PM
31 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM
01 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
01 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
02 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
02 Jan 1875, 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
3)
Blue Beard, [semi-equestrian burlesque pantomime]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 December 1874, 11.

Three performances on Friday.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 December 1874, 6.

Two cards, one promoting Kalakaua’s visit.

3)
Review: New York Post, 31 December 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 January 1875, 326.

King Kalakaua’s visit on Tuesday afternoon.