DECEMBER 1900

This blog is dedicated to preserving a record of Brooklyn theatre theatre-related images based largely on publication in nearly a half-dozen contemporary Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine (Brooklyn Life) of 1898-1908. It also lists the week-by-week productions at each legitimate theatre from January 1898 through December 1908. It is adapted from my earlier blog, BROOKLYN THEATRE FROM 1898: AN ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY and is intended as a supplement to a forthcoming two-volume book also called ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908).

The book covers everything related to Brooklyn theatre during the first decade of the former city's first decade as a borough of Greater New York, including plays, playhouses, productions, people, producing policies, scandals, lawsuits, fires, accidents, brawls, ethnic theatres, crimes, religious attacks, rivalry with Manhattan, and so on. The focus is on legitimate theatre, but considerable attention is paid to developments in vaudeville and burlesque as well. 

To find a specific month, please use the search box in the upper left corner. May-June and August-September are always joined, so searches for one of those months should be, for example, May-June 1906.

Samuel L. Leiter

Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024).

DECEMBER 1900 

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

December 3-8:
Amphion: The Parish Priest (Daniel Sully)
Bijou: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Brooklyn Garrick (Schiller Stock Company): A Soldier of the Empire
Columbia: The Cadet Girl *(Dan Daly)
Gayety: Woman and Wine
Grand Opera House: Hearts of Oak
Montauk: San Toy* (Augustin Daly Musical Company, James T. Powers)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Young Mrs. Winthrop
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

December 10-15:
Amphion: The Cadet Girl (Dan Daly)
Bijou: Superba
Brooklyn Garrick (Schiller Stock Company): We ‘Uns of Tennessee
Columbia: My Lady Dainty* (Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon)
Gayety: King of the Opium Ring
Grand Opera House: Woman and Wine
Montauk: The Pride of Jennico (James K. Hackett)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Quo Vadis
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

December 17-22:
Amphion: Our New Minister*
Bijou: The Honest Blacksmith* (Robert Fitzsimmons)
Columbia: Her Majesty * (Grace George)
Gayety: Hearts of Oak
Grand Opera House: The Parish Priest (Daniel Sully)
Montauk: Sag Harbor (James A. Herne)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Don’t Tell My Wife
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

December 24-29:
Amphion: Sag Harbor* (James A. Herne)
Bijou: In Wall Street* (Kelly and Mason)
Columbia: Hodge, Podge and Co.* (Peter F. Dailey)
Gayety: The Rebel* (Andrew Mack)
Grand Opera House: The Floor Walkers (Ward and Vokes)
Montauk: Papa’s Wife (Anna Held)
Park (Baker Stock Company): Hoodman Blind
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Taken from Life
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Academy of Music

 

 DECEMBER 3-8 

DECEMBER 10-15, 1900

DECEMBER 22-27, 1900

DECEMBER 24-29, 1900