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| Brooklyn-born Walter Hampden (born Dougherty), future star, at 25. |
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).
*=novelties
(recent plays new to Brooklyn)
October 3-8:
Amphion: (Spooner Stock Company #2) That Girl from Texas* (Cecil
Spooner)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company #1) Romeo and Juliet (Edna May Spooner)
Broadway: The Road to Kenmare* (Andrew Mack)
Columbia: (Columbia Stock Company) Mrs. Jack
Folly: A Prisoner of War
Gotham: Shadows of a Great City
Grand Opera House: Wedded and Parted
Majestic: Girls Will Be Girls* (Al Leech, Three Rosebuds)
Montauk: The Maid and the Mummy
Novelty: Why Women Sin
Park: Why Girls Leave Home
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Christian
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Flag of Truce
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Watson’s, Unique,
Orpheum, Gayety, Keeney’s
October 10-15:
Amphion: (Spooner Stock Company #2) When Knighthood Was in Flower (Edna
May Spooner)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company #1) A Night at the Circus (Cecil Spooner)
Broadway: The Secret of Polichinelle*
Columbia: (Columbia Stock Company) Thelma
Folly: Two Little Sailor Boys*
Gotham: The Charity Nurse
Grand Opera House: The Street Singer*
Majestic: King Dodo
Montauk: Othello; Carmen; Il Trovatore;
Lohengrin; La Bohème; Tannhäuser; I Pagliacci (Savage
Grand Opera Company)
Novelty: Deserted at the Altar
Park: Child Slaves of New York
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Galley Slave
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Forbidden Marriage
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Watson’s, Unique,
Orpheum, Gayety, Keeney’s
October 17-22:
Amphion: (Spooner Stock Company #2) A Night at the Circus (Cecil
Spooner)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company #1) In the Palace of the King (Edna May
Spooner)
Broadway: The Earl of Pawtucket (Lawrence D’Orsay)
Columbia: (Columbia Stock Company) The Three Musketeers
Folly: King Dodo
Gotham: From Rags to Riches (Joseph Santley)
Grand Opera House: David Harum
Majestic: Shore Acres (Mrs. James A. Herne)
Montauk: The Admirable Crichton (William Gillette)
Novelty: A Fight for Love (Bob Fitzsimmons)
Park: Lighthouse by the Sea
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Cumberland, ’61
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Captain Impudence
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Watson’s, Unique, Orpheum,
Gayety, Keeney’s
October 24-29:
Amphion: (Spooner Stock Company #2) In the Palace of the King (Edna May
Spooner)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company #1) The Charity Waif (Cecil Spooner)
Broadway: The Virginian (Dustin Farnum)
Columbia: (Columbia Stock Company) Jim Bludso
Folly: More to Be Pitied Than Scorned* (Lydia Powell)
Gotham: Kidnapped in New York (Barney Gilmore)
Grand Opera House: The Female Detectives (Russell Brothers)
Majestic: Down the Pike* (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Montauk: The Yankee Consul* (Raymond Hitchcock)
Novelty: Why Girls Leave Home
Park: Her Mad Marriage*
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Children of the Ghetto
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Fallen Among Thieves
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Watson’s, Unique,
Orpheum, Gayety, Keeney’
1. October 3-8, 1904
2. October 10-15, 1904
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| List of 18 theatres and top prices this week from Brooklyn Life. Missing are the Phillips' Lyceum and the Unique. |
3. October 17-22, 1904
4. October 24-29, 1904
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