APRIL 1906

The Clansman.

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. 

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Samuel L. Leiter

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

 APRIL 1906

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

April 2-7:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Banker’s Daughter
Broadway: It Happened in Nordland (Lew Fields and company)
Folly: Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West
Grand Opera House: The Boy Behind the Gun*
Majestic: York State Folks*
New Montauk: The Ham Tree* (McIntyre and Heath)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) When London Sleeps

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Road to Ruin
Shubert: The Man on the Box* (Henry E. Dixey, Carlotta Nillson)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Unique, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Alcazar, Amphion, Garden, Imperial, Novelty, Family

April 9-14:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Broadway: The Rogers Brothers in Ireland* (the Rogers Brothers)
Folly: The Boy Behind the Gun (Harry Clay Blaney)
Grand Opera House: At Piney Ridge
Majestic: The Little Duchess (Countess Olga von Hatzfeldt)
New Montauk: Strongheart (Robert Edeson)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Sapho
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Romeo and Juliet
Shubert: Mrs. Temple’s Telegram (Margaret Drew, Harry Conor)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Unique, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Alcazar, Amphion, Garden, Imperial, Novelty, Family

April 16-21:
Amphion: The Minister’s Daughters
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Mayor of Cornville
Broadway: The Clansman*
Folly: In Old Kentucky
Grand Opera House: Chinatown Charlie*
Majestic: The Old Homestead (William Lawrence)
New Montauk: The Duel* (Otis Skinner, Guy Standing, Fay Davis, Eben Plympton)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) On the Wabash
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Tracked Around the World
Shubert: Julie Bonbon (Clara Lipman, Louis Mann)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Unique, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Alcazar, Garden, Imperial, Novelty, Family

April 23-28:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Lost River
Broadway: The Galloper (Raymond Hitchcock)
Folly: Chinatown Charlie
Grand Opera House: Why Girls Leave Home
Majestic: The Sultan of Sulu
New Montauk: The Embassy Ball* (Lawrence D’Orsay)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Prisoner of Zenda
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Lieutenant Dick
Shubert: Becky Sharp (Mrs. Fiske, John Mason, George Arliss)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Unique, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Alcazar, Amphion, Garden, Imperial, Novelty, Family 

 

April 2-7, 1906

April 9-14, 1906

April 16-21, 1906

April 23-28, 1906