September 11, 1902: Comedy team Weber and Fields open another smash hit with their musical burlesque Twirly Whirly, which plays for 247 performances on Broadway. George Arliss also made his debut in these productions.įebruary 27, 1902: Shakepeare’s comedy As You Like It opens and runs for 60 performances at Broadway’s Theatre Republic, a popular success. Tanqueray, Magda, The Happy Hypocrite, and Pelleas and Melisande. Patrick Campbell, a respected British actress, made her Broadway debut at the Theatre Republic in a repertoire that included The Second Mrs. Featured dancer Evelyn Nesbit goes on to marry millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, who murders architect Stanford White over Nesbit in the “Crime of the Century.” Part of the success is attributed to the beautiful and flirtatious “Florodora Sextette” the chorus dancers. January 1902: The British import musical, Florodora, achieves hit status with over 500 performances since its Broadway opening on November 10, 1900. Young George does not become a star in his own right until 1904 with Little Johnny Jones. The Barrymore clan retains star status in the twenty-first century through actress Drew Barrymore.įebruary 25, 1901: The performing family “The Four Cohans” moves from vaudeville to Broadway with the musical, The Governor’s Son, with book, music, and lyrics by George M. Reportedly, Broadway has more legitimate theatres at this time than any other city in the world.įebruary 4, 1901: Actress Ethel Barrymore, one of the great Barrymore family of actors, gains stardom at the age of twenty-one in a production of Clyde Fitch’s comedy, Captain Jinks and the Horse Marines. Fiske), Ada Rehan, Maxine Elliot, Julia Marlowe, and the comedy duo of Weber and Fields, who’s musical burlesque Hoity Toity runs for 259 performances.
Southern, Anna Held, Minnie Maddern Fiske (a.k.a. She plays the title role of Hamlet as a breeches role (a woman dressed as a man), but critics found her ill-suited to the role.ġ901: The star power continues to prevail on Broadway, with performers such as Maude Adams, E. November and December, 1900: Famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt tours, performing five productions in repertory on Broadway: Hamlet, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Tosca, La Dame aux Camelias, and L'Aiglon. The theatre is renovated in the early 1990s as the New Victory and used for family-oriented theatre productions, reopening in 1995.
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It becomes Minsky’s Burlesque house in the 1930s, then a movie theatre called the Victory, showing XXX-rated movies in the 1970s. September 27, 1900: Oscar Hammerstein, grandfather to the famous lyricist of the same name, opens the Theatre Republic on 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenue. They follow up with a string of shows with silly names, including Hoity Toity (1901), Twirly Whirly (1902), and Whoop-Dee-Doo (1903) among others. September 6, 1900: The famous vaudeville comedy team of Joseph Weber and Lew Fields produce a hit musical burlesque, Fiddle-dee-dee, which runs for 262 performances at their Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall. The play is revived four more times by 1915, each time with Gillette in the lead. Gillette also stars as the famous detective.
June, 1900: William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle’s play Sherlock Holmes finally closes, after a popular run of 256 performances. The production is permitted to resume on April 7th and has several revivals.
Objections stem from the sexual overtones of actor Hamilton Revelle carrying Nethersole upstairs to an unseen bedroom. On the same night, Sapho, opens at Wallack’s Theatre and causes enough stir that the police close the production a month later and bring both the show’s producer and the star, Olga Nethersole, to trial. February 5, 1900: Broadway audiences at the Madison Square Garden Theatre are scandalized by the play Coralie & Company, Dressmakers, in which a white man is discovered in bed with a black woman.
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