A HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE: ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY (1898-1908): NOVEMBER 1906

Fritzie Scheff and William Pruette in M'lle Modiste.

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 1906

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn

November 5-10:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) A Young Wife
Blaney’s Amphion: The Gypsy Girl (Dolly Kemper)
Broadway: M’lle Modiste (Fritzi Scheff)
Columbia: Queen of the Convicts (Selma Herman)
Folly: Queen of the Highbinders
Grand Opera House: The Girl and the Gambler* (Florence Bindley)
Majestic: The Old Homestead
New Montauk: Alice Sit-By-the-Fire* (Ethel Barrymore)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Pudd’nhead Wilson

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Northfield Bank Robbery, or the Younger Brothers

Shubert: Julie Bon-Bon (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)

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

November 12-17:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Galley Slave
Blaney’s Amphion: Queen of the Convicts (Selma Herman)
Broadway: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Madge Carr Cook)
Columbia: At Cripple Creek
Folly: Home Folk
Grand Opera House: “The Bells”; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Othello (Thomas E. Shea)
Majestic: Red Feather
New Montauk: The Walls of Jericho* (James K. Hackett)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Rupert of Hentzau
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company)
Shubert: Before and After (Leo Ditrichstein)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

November 19-24:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Out of the Fold
Blaney’s Amphion: A Southern Vendetta* (Jessie May Hall)
Broadway: The Genius* (Nat C. Goodwin)
Columbia: The Cow Puncher*

Folly: “The Bells”; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Fool’s Revenge; Othello; Napoleon the Great (Thomas E. Shea

Grand Opera House: A Midnight Escape*

Majestic: Eileen Asthore* (Chauncey Olcott

New Montauk: Mamselle Sallie* (Katy Barry, John Slavin)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Octoroo

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Life That Kills

Shubert: Mrs. Temple’s Telegram (William Morris, Harry Conor)

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

November 26-December 1:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Masque of the White Rose
Blaney’s Amphion: The Hall-Room Boys*
Broadway: The Clansman
Columbia: The Phantom Detective*
Folly: The Girl Raffles (Cecil Spooner)
Grand Opera House: Around the Clock* (Ritchie London Comedy Company)
Majestic: Eileen Asthore (Chauncey Olcott)
New Montauk: The Vanderbilt Cup* (Elsie Janis)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Blue Jeans (Etta Reed Payton)
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Silver King
Shubert: Brown of Harvard* (Henry Woodruff)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty