FEBRUARY 1907

 

Alla Nazimova as Hedda Gabler.

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). 

 FEBRUARY 1907

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

February 4-9:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Counterfeiters
Blaney’s Amphion: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Al W. Martin’s company)
Broadway: Checkers
Columbia: The Confessions of a Wife
Folly: Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West
Grand Opera House: Secret Service Sam (Charles T. Aldrich)
Majestic: Metz in the Alps* (Al H. Wilson)
New Montauk: George Washington, Jr.* (George M. Cohan)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) She Dared Do Right
Shubert: The Blue Moon* (James T. Powers)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 11-16:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Mistress Nell
Blaney’s Amphion: Parted on Her Bridal Tour* (Victory Bateman)
Broadway: 45 Minutes from Broadway (Fay Templeton)
Columbia: The Avenger*
Folly: Secret Service Sam (Charles T. Aldrich)
Grand Opera House: A Millionaire’s Revenge
Majestic: His Last Dollar (David Higgins)
New Montauk: The Daughters of Men* (Dorothy Donnelly)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Cowboy and the Lady
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Lost in a Bad City
Shubert: The New York Idea* (Minnie Maddern Fiske)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 18-23:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Death Before Dishonor
Blaney’s Amphion: Kidnapped for Revenge
Broadway: Ben-Hur
Columbia: At the World’s Mercy*
Folly: Abyssinia (Bert Williams and George Walker)
Grand Opera House: Texas
Majestic: Dockstader’s Minstrels
New Montauk: The Aero Club* (Lulu Glaser)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) A Daughter of the South
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Boy Scout
Shubert: The Earl and the Girl (Eddie Foy)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 25-March 2:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown
Blaney’s Amphion: The Eyewitness*
Broadway: The Squaw Man (William Faversham, Julie Opp, W. S. Hart)
Columbia: Billy the Kid (Joseph Santley)
Folly: His Last Dollar (David Higgins)
Grand Opera House: No Mother to Guide Her (Lillian Mortimer)
Majestic: In Old Kentucky
New Montauk: The Rogers Brothers in Ireland (Rogers Brothers)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Raffles
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Waifs of New York (N. S. Wood)
Shubert: Hedda Gabler; A Doll’s House (Alla Nazimova)

Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 4-9, 1907

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Counterfeiters

Blaney’s Amphion: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with Al W. Martin’s company

Broadway: Checkers

Columbia: The Confessions of a Wife

Folly: Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West

Grand Opera House: Secret Service Sam, with Charles T. Aldrich

Majestic: Metz in the Alps, with Al H. Wilson

New Montauk: George Washington, Jr., with George M. Cohan

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Lee Avenue Stock Company) Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, with Etta Reed Payton

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) She Dared Do Right

Shubert: The Blue Moon, with James T. Powers

Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 11-16, 1907

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Mistress Nell

Blaney’s Amphion: Parted on Her Bridal Tour, with Victory Bateman

Broadway: 45 Minutes from Broadway, with Fay Templeton

Columbia: The Avenger

Folly: Secret Service Sam, with Charles T. Aldrich

Grand Opera House: A Millionaire’s Revenge

Majestic: His Last Dollar, with David Higgins

New Montauk: The Daughters of Men, with Dorothy Donnelly

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Lee Avenue Stock Company) The Cowboy and the Lady

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Lost in a Bad City

Shubert: The New York Idea, with Minnie Maddern Fiske

Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 18-23, 1907

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Death before Dishonor

Blaney’s Amphion: Kidnapped for Revenge

Broadway: Ben-Hur

Columbia: At the World’s Mercy

Folly: Abyssinia, with Williams and Walker

Grand Opera House: Texas

Majestic: Dockstader’s Minstrels

New Montauk: The Aero Club, with Lulu Glaser

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Lee Avenue Stock Company) A Daughter of the South, with Etta Reed Payton

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Boy Scout

Shubert: The Earl and the Girl, with Eddie Foy

Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

February 25-March 2, 1907

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown

Blaney’s Amphion: The Eyewitness

Broadway: The Squaw Man, with William Faversham, Julie Opp, W.S. Hart

Columbia: Billy the Kid, with Joseph Santley

Folly: His Last Dollar, with David Higgins

Grand Opera House: No Mother to Guide Her, with Lillian Mortimer

Majestic: In Old Kentucky

New Montauk: The Rogers Brothers in Ireland, with the Rogers Brothers

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Lee Avenue Stock Company) Raffles, with Etta Reed Payton, Corse Payton

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Waifs of New York, with N.S. Wood

Shubert: Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, Alla Nazimova

Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre), Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Drama Desk voter. Author/editor of 31 books. Most recent: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE (2024); MEIJI KABUKI (2022); KABUKI AT THE CROSSROADS (2014). Selected others: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEW YORK STAGE, 1920-1930, 1930-1940, 1940-1950; SHAKESPEARE AROUND THE GLOBE; FROM BELASCO TO BROOK; FROM STANISLAVSKY TO BARRAULT; THE GREAT STAGE DIRECTORS; FROZEN MOMENTS; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN THEATRE; HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE TRADITIONAL THEATRE; THE ART OF KABUKI; KABUKI PLAYS ON STAGE (4 vols.), etc. “Back-translations”: THE LION KING, AIDA, and WICKED for Tokyo productions. Blogs: KABUKI WOOGIE and THEATRE'S LEITER SIDE. Regular contributor: THEATER PIZZAZZ, THEATER LIFE. slleiter@gmail.com

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