Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $.25; .15 children under 10

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jan 1864, 3:00 PM
11 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
12 Jan 1864, 3:00 PM
12 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
13 Jan 1864, 3:00 PM
13 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
14 Jan 1864, 3:00 PM
14 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
15 Jan 1864, 3:00 PM
15 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
16 Jan 1864, 3:00 PM
16 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Kelly’s Automaton Musical Troupe;  Herr Zirom;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal
2)
Ticket-of-leave man, The, [drama]
aka Ticket of leave man
Text Author: Taylor [dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 January 1864, 7.
“Between the acts of the drama, HERR ZIROM, from the principal concert-rooms of Europe, GIVES HIS WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE on the EMMELYNKA, or MOUTH HARMONICA.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 January 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 January 1864.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 January 1864, 7.
“Last week of Herr Zirom and of his elegant and Heavenly Emmelynka.”