Barnum's American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Price: $.25; .15 children under ten

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Mar 1863, All Day
17 Mar 1863, All Day
18 Mar 1863, All Day
19 Mar 1863, All Day
20 Mar 1863, All Day
21 Mar 1863, All Day

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Washington Morrison Nutt;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison;  Minnie Warren;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal;  Robert Henry Hendershot
2)
Roll of the drum, The
Text Author: Wilks

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 March 1863, 7.
“THE LEARNED MUSICAL SEAL, NED!  Which plays tunes upon a musical instrument! . . . Mr. Harrison, Comic Impromptu Singer”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 March 1863, 7.
“NEW MILITARY DRAMA, with splendid scenery, music and mechanism, entitled THE ROLL OF THE DRUM.”
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 March 1863, 5.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 March 1863, 7.

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 March 1863, 7.