Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

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

Price: $.25; .15 children under 10

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 October 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Aug 1864, All Day
16 Aug 1864, All Day
17 Aug 1864, All Day
18 Aug 1864, All Day
19 Aug 1864, All Day
20 Aug 1864, All Day

Program Details

3 and 7:30 pm [play]; 11 am [other parts of program].

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mlle. [dancer] Louise;  Antonio Grossi;  Mlle. Ernestine;  Tony Denier;  George C. Davenport;  Charles Kemble Fox
2)
Mystic cave, The; or, The enchanted horn
aka Zauberhorn; Enchanted horn
3)
Work, orchestrion, unidentified
aka Orchestrion, The; Grand orchestrion
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 August 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 August 1864.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 August 1864.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 August 1864.

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 August 1864, 2.

“[T]he Ravel pantomime of ‘The Mystic Cave’ is the main attraction.”

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 20 August 1864, 150.