Jack and Gill

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Jul 1866, 2:30 PM
30 Jul 1866, 7:30 PM
31 Jul 1866, 2:30 PM
31 Jul 1866, 7:30 PM
01 Aug 1866, 2:30 PM
01 Aug 1866, 7:30 PM
02 Aug 1866, 2:30 PM
02 Aug 1866, 7:30 PM
03 Aug 1866, 2:30 PM
03 Aug 1866, 7:30 PM
04 Aug 1866, 2:30 PM
04 Aug 1866, 7:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Jack and Gill went up the hill
aka Jack and Gill went up the hill; or, Mary had her little lamb and Harlequin Jack Horner; Mary had her little lamb and Harlequin Jack Horner; Harlequin Jack Horner; Jack and Jill
Text Author: Fox
Participants:  Fox’s Combination Pantomime Company

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Post, 30 July 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 July 1866, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 31 July 1866, 4.

(brief mention)

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 31 July 1866.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 06 August 1866, 4.

“The pantomime is well called comic. . . . The accompanying music is loud enough to deafen the curiosities and create mutinous feelings in the Happy Family [an exhibition in the Museum].”