Hartz Magic Show

Event Information

Venue(s):
Dodworth's Hall

Price: $.50; $1 reserved; Christmas prices $.50, children, .25

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 October 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM
25 Dec 1866, 2:00 PM
25 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM
26 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM
27 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM
28 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM
29 Dec 1866, 2:00 PM
29 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Various nonmusical acts (featuring M. Hartz’s illusions), with A. Sedgwick, English concertina.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Alfred Blair Sedgwick
2)
Head in the air, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 December 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 December 1866, 7.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 29 December 1866, 5.

Describes Hartz’s illusions, not the music. “The Chickering piano is used at these performances”