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:
15 November 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Aug 1864, All Day
30 Aug 1864, All Day
31 Aug 1864, All Day
01 Sep 1864, All Day
02 Sep 1864, All Day
03 Sep 1864, All Day

Program Details

Orchestrion, The (instrument resembling an orchestra – plays “at short intervals, day and evening”)

Every day 3:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mlle. Ernestine;  Tony Denier;  Charles Kemble Fox;  Antonio Grossi;  [Barnum's] Anderson
2)
Jocko; ou, Le singe du Brésil, [drama]
aka Jocko; or, The Brazilian ape; Jocko, the man monkey; Jocko, der brasilianische Affe; Joko, the Brazilian ape
Text Author: Gabriel, Rochefort
Participants:  Tony Denier (role: Jocko)
3)
Works, orchestrion, unidentified
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 August 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 August 1864.

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 29 August 1864, 2.

“The Ravel pantomime of ‘Jocko, or the Brazilian Ape,’ will be played every afternoon and evening.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 29 August 1864, 5.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 August 1864.
Includes a notice from Barnum on why he’s raising prices.