Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $.30; $.15 children

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Mar 1875, 2:30 PM
29 Mar 1875, 8:00 PM
30 Mar 1875, 2:30 PM
30 Mar 1875, 8:00 PM
31 Mar 1875, 2:30 PM
31 Mar 1875, 8:00 PM
01 Apr 1875, 2:30 PM
01 Apr 1875, 8:00 PM
02 Apr 1875, 2:30 PM
02 Apr 1875, 8:00 PM
03 Apr 1875, 2:30 PM
03 Apr 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus
2)
Fete at Pekin, The; or, Holiday of the celestials
3)
Indian life, a chase for a wife

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 March 1875, 11.

“Grand reopening, two weeks only!”

2)
Review: New York Herald, 30 March 1875, 7.

Brief; no mention of music.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 10 April 1875, 14.

“…Notwithstanding the numerous attractions, the attendance was meagre.”