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:
5 August 2014
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
21 Dec 1863, All Day22 Dec 1863, All Day
23 Dec 1863, All Day
24 Dec 1863, All Day
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Citations
1)
“Kelly’s Automaton Musical Troupe, consisting of six figures, size of life, which play upon novel pianos or harperians, producing music equal to a full orchestra. . . . EDUCATED SEAL, plays a Musical Instrument. . . . HERR ZIROM, from the principal concert-rooms of Europe, GIVES HIS WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE on the Emmelynka, or Mouth Harmonica, DORA DAWRON, in her double-voiced duet.”
2)
“[T]he ‘Ticket-of-Leave Man,’ a new Giant, a novel musical instrument, a big trout, and a hundred other things more or less dramatic.”