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:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Mar 1864, All Day
22 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.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Aphrosa; or, The Spirit of Beauty
Text Author: Unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 March 1864, 7.
“APHROSIA . . . Appropriate Music . . . Unrivalled Corps de Ballet.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 March 1864, 10.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 March 1864, 7.

4)
Review: New-York Times, 23 March 1864, 4.
“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.”
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 March 1864, 7.

6)
Review: New-York Times, 28 March 1864, 4.
Barnum’s magic fountain has created a genuine sensation. . . . The effect of the last scene of ‘Aphrosa’ is exceedingly brilliant and quite novel.”