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:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
4 June 2015
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
21 Mar 1864, All Day22 Mar 1864, All Day
23 Mar 1864, All Day
24 Mar 1864, All Day
25 Mar 1864, All Day
26 Mar 1864, All Day
Program Details
Every day at 3pm and evening at 7:30pm.
Aphrosia is a revival of Satanella. See R: NYT 03/23/64, p.4.
Aphrosia is a revival of Satanella. See R: NYT 03/23/64, p.4.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Citations
1)
“APHROSIA . . . Appropriate Music . . . Unrivalled Corps de Ballet.”
5)
“Under the name of ‘Aphrosa, or the Spirit of Beauty,’ Mr. Barnum has revived a well-known musical spectacle, (‘Satanella,’) producing it with a degree of care and fullness that entitles him to the greatest praise. The stage of the Museum is not very capacious, but in this piece it is so handsomely filled that the eye is fully satisfied. . . . The drama, which is somewhat long, receives the best of treatment at the hands of the company, and the entertainment may safely be referred to as one of the best that Mr. Barnum has provided for many months. . . . Between the acts of the spectacle the giants, the dwarf, the improvisatore [Harrison], and the Tyrolean (a swain who plays upon three pipes at once, using—rather unpoetically—his nostrils for two of them) disport themselves, and fill the audience with glee.”