Barnum's American Museum

Event Information

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

Conductor(s):
William T. Peterschen

Price: $.25; .15 children under 10

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Nov 1862, All Day
25 Nov 1862, All Day
26 Nov 1862, All Day

Program Details

Dion Boucicault: Pauvrette; or, under the snow (drama) [MON]
Isabelle; or, woman’s life [TUE]
Victorine; or, I’ll sleep on it [WED]

W.T. Peterschen, musical dir. & composer

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Washington Morrison Nutt;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison
2)
Pauvrette; or, Under the snow
aka Pauvrette
Text Author: Boucicault
3)
Isabelle; or, Woman's life
Text Author: Buckstone
4)
Victorine; or, I’ll sleep on it
Text Author: Buckstone

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 November 1862, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 November 1862, 7.
“Commodore Nutt . . . will give a variety of performances, including songs [and] dances. . . . Mr. Wm. B. Harrison, impromptu comic singer, appears at each performance [of the plays].”