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Henderson, David (1853–1908), producer. Born in Scotland, where he was orphaned at the age of twelve, he apprenticed himself in the newspaper trade, then came to America at the age of eighteen to work on papers from New York to California before settling in Chicago. There he began to take an active role in theatricals, building the Chicago Opera House in 1887 and producing a series of musicals that enjoyed long runs and toured the country: The Arabian Nights; The Crystal Slipper; Bluebeard, Jr.; Sinbad the Sailor; and Ali Baba. Henderson also worked closely with JohnMcCaull, mounting many midwestern versions of comic operas and managing several theatres in Chicago as well as in Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and New York. He was often credited with reestablishing Chicago as a major theatre center after the great fire and of initiating the city's heyday as a producing center second only to New York, a heyday that lasted until World War I.

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