![]() It was destroyed by a fire on 30 March 1900.ĬROSBY’S OPERA HOUSE. Their opening was with the County Fair, August 24, 1890, since which time the Columbia has become one of the most noted theaters in the United States. ![]() Davis in 1890, and conducted by them since that time as a high class combination house. Carson and reopened October I, 1888, by the Duff Comic Opera Company in the Queen’s Mate. Name changed to Columbia in 1885, during Irving engagement, Ellen Terry officiating at the ceremony. Jacobs, with Said Pasha by the California Opera Company.ĬOLUMBIA THEATER, known for four years as Haverly’s Theater, south side of Monroe Street between Dearborn and Clark Streets. ![]() It was opened under this management by Eddy Foy in Little Robinson Crusoe.ĬLARK STREET THEATER, North Clark and Michigan Streets, opened October 27, 1889, by H. For a little more than ten years under the same management, the house was leased December 22, 1895, by Kohl & Castle, and devoted first to combinations and to continuous vaudeville. The attraction being Tom Keene in Hamlet. This hall replaced the short-lived McCormick Hall.ĬHICAGO OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, corner Washington and Clark Streets. Converted into Hooley’s Opera House in 1870.ĬENTRAL MUSIC HALL, corner of Kinzie and Clark streets. Variously occupied until 1897, when it was renamed “The Bijou” and devoted to popular melodramas.īRYAN HALL, Clark Street, the site of present Grand Opera House, was built in I860, and devoted to concerts, conventions and miscellaneous entertainments. Opened December 31, 1883, by Fay Templeton in Girofle Girofla. THE BIJOU, formerly The Standard, corner of Jackson and Halsted Streets. Milward Adams has managed this opera house, one of the greatest in the world, from the opening until the present time. On the next evening the Abbey & Grau Company gave Romeo and Juliet, with Patti as Juliet, and Tamagno followed on the next night in William Tell. Clarence Eddy, and the Apollo Club appeared, and there were addresses by Mayor Cregier, Hon. Dedicated Monday evening, December 9, 1889, by a special programme, of which Adelina Patti was the bright particular star. Hutton of the Lincoln Theater obtained the lease and reopened the theater August, 1898. Barry became manager and conducted the theater until June, 1898, when James S. Jacobs retained the management until April, 1897, when W. Was dedicated September I, 1890, by the Emma Juch Grand English Opera Company in Faust. THE ALHAMBRA, State Street and Archer Avenue, H. The season was a total failure, and the company soon fell apart. Charles Hill, Miss Mollie Maeder, Miss Belle Remick and others. Cline, Miss Anna Lonergan, Miss Emma Maddern, Miss Ada Gilman, Mrs. The stock company organized for Aiken’s Theater included Frank Lawler, Milton Nobles, F. It burned in the second big fire, July 14, 1874, and was not rebuilt. It was a failure, and after a time was rechristened the Adelphi, and conducted as a variety house by Leonard Grover. Built at the northwest corner of Wabash Avenue and Congress Street, and opened October 7, 1872, the anniversary of the big fire, with the Theodore Thomas orchestra. Haverly under the name of Haverly’s Theater, August 4, 1878, with the Colville Folly Company in The Babes in the Wood, and was used for general theatrical purposes until 1880, when demolished to make way for the First National Bank building.ĪIKEN’S THEATER (the Second). Reconstructed in 1878, it was reopened by J. The walls of the old postoffice building, left standing after the great fire, on the corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, were utilized as the shell of a theater called by this name, and opened January 11, 1875, with burlesque, under the direction of Leonard Grover. Jacobs in 1888, continuing until 1897 when E. Rebuilt and reopened December zoth the same year by Stetson’s Neck and Neck. Rebuilt and reopened September 15, 1879, by William Emmett as a dramatic and variety house. Lucille Western, Aimee, Chanfrau, Edwin Adams, the Vokes Family, Sothern, McCullough, Toole, Jefferson, and many other notables, played here during the period of rebuilding the city. Opened January 10, 1872, by the Wyndham Comedy Company in Ours. Of these, perhaps, Haverly’s is the more elegant.ĪCADEMY OF MUSC, Halsted Street, near Madison. They rank thus : McVicker’s, the Haverly, Grand Opera House, Academy of Music (West side), Hooley’a, Standard and Lyceum. Seven of them are what would be called first-class. There are ten theatres in Chicago, exclusive of dime museums and beer gardens. A Brief Chronicle and Abstract of the Theaters in Chicago from 1840-1900.įrom Daily Alta California, 1 September 1884:
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