NOVEMBER 1899

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).

 NOVEMBER 1899

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

November 6-11:
Amphion: Way Down East
Bijou: The New Eight Bells
Columbia: At the White Horse Tavern
Montauk: Cyrano de Bergerac (comic opera) (Francis Wilson)
Park: Lucia di Lammermoor (Jaxon Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Grand Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Gayety

November 13-18:
Amphion: A Stranger in a Strange Land*
Bijou: Zorah* (Edward Arden)
Columbia: Sporting Life
Gayety: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Grand Opera House: La Tosca, Gismonda, Fedora (Melbourne McDowell, Blanche Walsh)
Montauk: The Girl from Maxim’s*
Park: Daughter of the Regiment
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire

November 20-25:
Amphion: Why Smith Left Home*
Bijou: Man o’ Wars Man, Slaves of Sin, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sidney Carton (Thomas E.          Shea)
Columbia: Mr. Smooth* (Willie Collier)
Gayety: The Rising Generation* (Billy Barry)
Grand Opera House: Sis Hopkins* (Rose Melville)
Montauk: Lord and Lady Algy* (Empire Stock Company)
Park: Fra Diavolo (Jaxon Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire

November 27-December 2:
Amphion: At the White Horse Tavern
Bijou: A Romance of Athlone (Chauncey Olcott)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Columbia: The Song of the Sword * (E. H. Sothern, Virginia Harned)
Eagle: Gettysburg (opened November 30)
Montauk: Lord and Lady Algy (Empire Theatre Company)
Park: The Bohemian Girl, Il Trovatore (Jaxon Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Gayety, Grand Opera House

NOVEMBER 6-11, 1899

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NOVEMBER 13-18, 1899

 

NOVEMBER 20-25, 1899

NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 2, 1899