Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):

Price: $.25; .15 children

Event Type:
Orchestral, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1863, All Day
22 Sep 1863, All Day
23 Sep 1863, All Day
24 Sep 1863, All Day
25 Sep 1863, All Day
26 Sep 1863, All Day

Program Details

Performances at 3 and 7:30 p.m.

Brunhilda includes “The Ghost” in “seven distinct tableaux and five distinct ghosts”.

With various songs and dances by the Indian troupe.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Sioux and Winnebago Indian Chiefs, Warriors and Squaws;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal
2)
Brunhilda; or, Wake not the dead
aka Wake not the dead
3)
Ghost, The, "[optical illusion]"
aka That ghost
4)
Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]
Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 September 1863.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 September 1863, 4.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 September 1863, 7.

     “Full Orchestra.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 03 October 1863, 195.

     “Day business good, but night trade not very encouraging.  The place is rather too far down town to do much after dark.  Barnum might make a pile by carting his things up towards Union Square, and we think he will be compelled to do it some day.”