Barnum’s Museum and Circus

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's New American Museum [SEP 65-MAR 68]

Price: $.30; .15 children under ten years

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Feb 1866, All Day
27 Feb 1866, All Day
28 Feb 1866, All Day
01 Mar 1866, All Day
02 Mar 1866, All Day
03 Mar 1866, All Day

Program Details

Moses; or, Israel in Egypt includes: "Moving panaroma of the Nile" and "
Spiritual tableaux."

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: William B. [comic singer] Harrison

2)

Moses; or, Israel in Egypt

Text Author: Aiken

3)

Moving panorama of the Nile

aka Earthquake; or The spectre of the Nile

4)

Spiritual tableaux

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 February 1866, 12.

Discussion of Moses. “Musical accompaniment is not lacking. It seldom is, now-a-days, to any sort of play; but to this one, it does not seem inappropriate.”

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 February 1866.

3)

Review: New York Clipper, 10 March 1866, 382.

“[O]ne of the greatest dramatic successes of the season.”