MAY-JUNE 1903

Maxine Elliott as Portia

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  tlists 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 1903 

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn) 

May 6-11:

Bijou: Romance of Coon Hollow
Columbia: Ben Hur
Criterion: Whose Baby Are You? (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Old Jed Prouty (Richard Golden)
Grand Opera House: My Lady* (Eva Tanguay)
Montauk: All on Account of Eliza (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Montauk: In a Balcony*; “Land of Heart’s Desire”* (Otis Skinner, Eleanor Robson, Sarah Cowell LeMoyne; May 7 matinee only)
Park: Because She Loved Him So (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Woman against Woman (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

May 13-18:

Amphion: The Girl We Love* (Charles Dickson, Lillian Burkhart)
Columbia: Ben Hur
Criterion: Charley’s Uncle (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: The Still Alarm (Harry Lacy)
Grand Opera House: The Charity Ball (Aubrey Stock Company)
Montauk: Lohengrin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: The Two Orphans (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Hazel Kirke; A Gilded Fool (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée        

May 20-25:

Criterion: The Blundering Mr. Budds (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: The Honest Blacksmith (Bob Fitzsimmons)
Grand Opera House: Men and Women (Aubrey Stock Company)
Montauk: Carmen; Faust (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: Hazel Kirke; The Buckeye (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: A Runaway Wife (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée 

May 26-June 1:

Amphion: The Hunchback (Brennan Stock Company)
Columbia: The Merchant of Venice (Nat C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott; one performance, May 20)
Criterion: Nancy Hanks (Baker Stock Company)
Grand Opera House: We ‘Uns of Tennessee (Aubrey Stock Company)
Montauk: La Bohème; Martha (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: Barbara Frietchie (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée 

June 3-8:

Montauk: Il Trovatore; The Bohemian Girl (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: Caste (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Eagle’s Nest (Corse Payton Stock Company, replacing local Payton Stock Company; third such visit)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée, Criterio 

June 10-15:

Montauk: Diplomacy (Charles Frohman’s Empire Stock Company, including William                    Faversham, Margaret Anglin; June 13, one night only)
Park: For Fair Virginia (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Little Minister (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Star, Orpheum, Criterion 

June 17-22:

Criterion: The Arabian Nights (Brennan Stock Company)
Park: Becky Bliss, the Circus Girl (Spooner Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Star 

June 24-29:

Park: “A Happy Pair”; A Child of the Regiment (Spooner Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Star

May 4-9, 1903

2.      May 11-16, 1903

3.      May 18-23, 1903

4.      May 25-30, 1903

5.      June 1-6, 1903

APRIL 1903

 

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).

APRIL 1901   

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn) 

April 1-6:

Bijou: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Milt G. Barlow Company)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: L’Aiglon; Camille (Sarah Bernhardt, Coquelin; three performances)
Columbia: The Girl from Up Here* (Edna May, Charles Frohman Musical Comedy Company)
Gayety: The Bowery After Dark (Terry McGovern)
Grand Opera House: Quo Vadis
Montauk: Hamlet; Camille (E.H. Sothern, Virginia Harned)
Park: The Pearl of Savoy (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Nell Gwynne (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

April 8-13:

Amphion: Der Millionen Schwab, German light opera (Adolf Phillip)
Bijou: On the Suwannee River
Criterion: Friends (Baker Stock Company)
Columbia: To Have and to Hold* (Isabel Irving)
Gayety: Human Spiders*
Grand Opera House: The Little Minister
Montauk: David Harum (William H. Crane)
Park: The Butterflies (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: A Midnight Bell (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

April 15-20:

Bijou: The Dangers of Paris
Columbia: The Lash of a Whip; The Shades of Night
Criterion: Too Much Johnson (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Al W. Martin’s Company)
Grand Opera House: A Trip to Chinatown
Montauk: David Harum* (William H. Crane)
Park: That Girl from Paris; East Lynne (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Belle of Richmond (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

April 22-27:

Amphion: Richard Carvel (John Drew)
Bijou: The Tide of Life*
Criterion: The Late Mr. Jones (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Sons of Ham (Bert Williams, George Walker)
Grand Opera House: Sapho (Sadie Martinot)
Montauk: Fiddle-Dee-Dee; burlesques of The Gay Lord Quex and A Royal Family (Weber and     Fields, De Wolf Hopper, John T. Kelly, Lillian Russell, David Warfield)
Park: The Galley Slave (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Romeo and Juliet (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

April 29-May 4:

Bijou: The Still Alarm (Harry Lacy)
Columbia: Ben Hur*
Criterion: The Man from Mexico (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Sapho (Sadie Martinot)
Grand Opera House: Old Jed Prouty* (Richard Golden)
Montauk: Are You a Mason?*
Park: A Soldier of the Empire (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Sporting Duchess (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheu  

1.      April 6-11, 1903

2.      April 13-18, 1903

3.      April 20-25, 1903

 4.      April 27-May 2, 1903

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MARCH 1903

 

Brooklyn Eagle, March 15, 1903, announcing widespread theatre building activity across the nation, including Brooklyn. 

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).

 MARCH 1901

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

March 4-9:

Amphion: Quo Vadis
Bijou: A Guilty Mother
Columbia: A Runaway Girl
Criterion: Why Smith Left Home (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Lost River
Grand Opera House: A Wise Guy
Montauk: ‘Way Down East
Park: The Wages of Sin (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Ensign (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Grand Opera House 

March 11-16:

Amphion: Arizona
Bijou: Reaping the Whirlwind*
Criterion: A Celebrated Case (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Shore Acres
Grand Opera House: The Great Kellar, Magician
Montauk: Richard Carvel* (John Drew)
Park: Trilby (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Camille; or, the Fate of a Coquette (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

March 18-23:

Amphion: Way Down East
Bijou: The Silver King
Columbia: Lady Huntworth’s Experiment* (Hilda Spong, Daniel Frohman’s Company)
Criterion: What Happened to Jones (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Across the Pacific (Harry Clay Blaney)
Grand Opera House: Shore Acres
Montauk: Richard Carvel (John Drew)
Park: Fanchon, the Cricket; East Lynne (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: A Flag of Truce (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum 

March 25-30:

Amphion: Henry V; A Parisian Romance; The First Violin; Beau Brummel; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Richard Mansfield)
Bijou: The Convict’s Daughter
Columbia: The Governor’s Son* (the Four Cohans)
Criterion: Alabama (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: The Little Minister
Grand Opera House: Barbara Frietchie (Effie Ellsler)
Montauk: Sweet Nell of Old Drury (Ada Rehan)
Park: The War of Wealth (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Plunger; East Lynne (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum

1.      March 2-7, 1903

2.      March 9-14, 1903

3.      March 16-21, 1903

4.      March 22-28, 1903

5.      March 30-April 4, 1903

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