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Casino Theatre
Casino Theatre (New York). The first theatre built in America specifically for the presentation of popular musicals, it opened in 1882 with a performance of Strauss's The Queen's Lace Handkerchief. It was the brainchild of Rudolph Aronson, who originally conceived it as a theatre with restaurants, gambling rooms, and New York's first roof garden playhouse. Designed by Francis Kimball and Thomas Wisebell in the Moorish style then in vogue, it stood at the southeast corner of Broadway and 39th Street. For many of its early years it was home to a distinguished ensemble of singers and comedians, although for its first decade it presented only imports. In 1894, however, it offered the first American revue, The Passing Show. Its summer roof garden was the site of the premiere of The Origin of the Cake Walk; or, Clorindy (1898), the first African‐American musical to be offered to a white Broadway audience. The house's beautiful chorus line was so famous that a 1900 musical, called The Casino Girl, was based on the imaginary adventures of one of its young ladies. By the turn of the century, the stock company had been disbanded and the Casino, taken over by the young Shuberts, was booked in the same way as other theatres. Among its hits were Florodora (1900), A Chinese Honeymoon (1902), Wildflower (1923), The Vagabond King (1925), and The Desert Song (1926). It was demolished in 1930.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Casino Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Casino Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-CasinoTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Casino Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-CasinoTheatre.html |
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Casino Theatre
Casino Theatre, New York, on the south-east corner of Broadway and 39th Street, for almost 50 years the leading musical comedy house of New York. Built in a massively Moorish style, it held 1,300, and had a roof garden for summer evening concerts. It opened in 1883, and among the musical plays produced there were Florodora (1900), A Chinese Honeymoon (1902), Wildflower (1923), and The Vagabond King (1925). Its last hit was The Desert Song (1926). It was pulled down in 1930.
The Earl Carroll Theatre was renamed the Casino from 1932 to 1934. |
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Casino Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Casino Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-CasinoTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Casino Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-CasinoTheatre.html |
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