MAY-JUNE 1905

 

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).

MAY-JUNE 1905 

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

May 1-6:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Tom Moore
Broadway: The School Girl (Edna May)
Folly: Sis Hopkins (Rose Melville)
Gotham: Darkest Russia
Grand Opera House: Arizona
Majestic: The Strollers
Montauk: Fatinitza; Boccaccio (Fritzi Scheff)
Park: Nobody’s Darling
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Private Secretary
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Tie That Binds
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion

May 8-13:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Broadway: Mrs. Temple’s Telegram* (William Morris)
Folly: Arizona
Majestic: The Silver Slipper
Montauk: Mrs. Black Is Back (May Irwin)
Park: The Peddler
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Ten Nights in a Barroom
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Prisoner of War
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s

May 15-20:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Polly of the Circus
Broadway: It Happened in Nordland* (Lew Fields)
Folly: The Millionaire Detective*
Majestic: The Show Girl
Park: The Span of Life
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Colleen Bawn
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) An Orphan’s Prayer
Vaudeville/burlesque: Gayety, Orpheum, Star

May 22-27:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) 7-20-8
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Camille
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Little Church Around the Corner
Vaudeville/burlesque: Orpheum, Gayety, Star

May 29-June 3:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Shaughraun

Broadway: Barbara Frietchie ((Broadway Dramatic Company) Sidney Toler, Catherine Countiss)

Orpheum: The Little Duchess (Elsie Janis; begins four-week season of comic opera

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Three Guardsmen\Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Bounty Jumpers

Vaudeville/burlesque: Gayety, Star

June 5-10:
Bijou: The Austrian Dancer
Broadway: (Broadway Dramatic Company) The Christian
Orpheum: The Chimes of Normandy
Vaudeville/burlesque: Gayety, Star

June 12-17:
Bijou: Love in Harness
Broadway: (Broadway Dramatic Company) Old Heidelberg
Orpheum: The Wedding Day

June 19-24:
Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (Jacob Adler)
Orpheum: The Bohemian Girl

1.      May 1-6, 1905

2.      May 8-13, 1905

3.      May 15-20, 1905

4.      May 22-27, 1905

5.      May 29-June 3, 1905

6.      June 5-10, 1905

7.      June 12-17, 1905

8.      June 19-24, 1905

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