Barnum's American Museum

Event Information

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

Price: $.25; .15 children under 10

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Apr 1864, All Day
19 Apr 1864, All Day
20 Apr 1864, All Day
21 Apr 1864, All Day
22 Apr 1864, All Day
23 Apr 1864, All Day

Program Details



Every day 3pm and 7:30pm.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Franz [cond./pf/voc.] Stoepel;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal;  Major Willie Bagley
2)
Pomp of Cudjo’s cave, [drama]
Text Author: De Walden

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 April 1864, 7.
“MAJOR WILLIE BAGLEY, the Wisconsin INFANT DRUMMER, only FOUR YEARS OLD, who beats the world as he does his drum.”
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 April 1864, 2.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 April 1864.

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 30 April 1864, 22.
“Barnum has been running ‘Cudjoe’s Cave’ . . . to good afternoon business.”