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:
13 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Apr 1864, Evening

Program Details



3 pm and 7:30 pm

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:   Ned the Learned Musical Seal;  Major Willie Bagley;  Franz [cond./pf/voc.] Stoepel;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison
2)
Taming of the shrew; or, Katharine and Petruchio
aka Bezähmte Widerspänstige; Katherine and Petruchio; Catherine and Petruchio; Catharine and Petruchio
Text Author: Shakespeare
3)
Dumb belle, The
aka Dumb bell
Text Author: Bernard

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 April 1864, 7.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 April 1864.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 30 April 1864, 22.
Gives Barnum program.  “The Dramatic Fund Association must have been considerably benefited by the several benefits given on Saturday evening, April 23rd. . . . All these entertainments were most liberally patronized.”