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"New Park Theatre" redirects here. For the earlier theater of the same name, see
Abbey's Park Theatre
.
Former theatre in Manhattan, New York
Herald Square Theatre
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Herald_Square_Theatre_at_night.jpg/240px-Herald_Square_Theatre_at_night.jpg) Herald Square Theatre in 1907
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Former names
| (New) Park Theatre (1883?1894)
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Address
| 1331 Broadway
New York City
United States
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Type
| Broadway
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Capacity
| 1150
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Opened
| 1883
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Closed
| 1914
(
1914
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Demolished
| 1915
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Years active
| 1883?1914
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Architect
| Rose & Stone
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The
Herald Square Theatre
was a
Broadway theatre
in
Manhattan
, New York City, built in 1883 and closed in 1914. The site is now a highrise designed by
H. Craig Severance
.
[1]
History
[
edit
]
The
Park Theatre
opened in 1883 (also known as the
New
Park Theatre
) on the partly demolished site of the Great New York Aquarium (1876?1881),
[1]
which is unrelated to the later
New York Aquarium
. Actor Charles E. Evans, retiring from the stage with cash in hand from the long-running success of
A Parlor Match
, refurbished the prior
Harrigan's
Park Theatre as the Herald Square Theatre in 1894.
[2]
It stood at 1331 Broadway, designed by architects Rose & Stone, with about 1150 seats and with its interior furnished by the interior of the nearby
Booth's Theatre
, which was being demolished.
Lee Shubert
took over the lease of the theatre in 1900, making it the first Broadway theatre owned by
The Shubert Organization
.
Partially destroyed by fire and rebuilt, in 1911 it became "the first New York theatre to be converted into a
silent movie
house", but it was demolished only three years later, as the
Garment District
expanded, and the Broadway theater district migrated north of 40th Street.
[3]
[4]
The theatre offered a variety of entertainment, from plays, like
Shaw
's
Arms and the Man
(1894), to
Edwardian musical comedies
, like
The Girl from Kay's
(1903?1904) and
The Girl Behind the Counter
(1907?1908), to operetta, like
Reginald De Koven
and
Harry B. Smith
's
Rob Roy
.
[5]
It saw the first performance of the
George M. Cohan
song "
You're a Grand Old Flag
" in 1906, and it was also where
William Randolph Hearst
first saw and met his wife
Millicent Willson
during her appearance as a "bicycle girl" in 1897.
Selected performances
[
edit
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The Park Theatre, on a map published in 1890
References
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edit
]
- ^
a
b
Miller, Tom (2016-12-19).
"The Lost Great New York Aquarium - Herald Square"
.
Daytonian in Manhattan
. Retrieved
2018-03-16
.
- ^
Who's who on the stage
, p. 90 (1906)
- ^
Herald Square Theatre
at the
Internet Broadway Database
- ^
(10 July 1914).
The Real Estate Field
,
The New York Times
("The property, on which is the Herald Square Theatre, has a Broadway frontage of 211.5 feet, 207 feet on Thirty-fifth Street and eight-one feet on Thirty-sixth Street.")
- ^
Traubner, Richard (2003).
Operetta: A Theatrical History, rev. ed
. New York: Routledge. p. 342.
ISBN
9780203509029
.
- ^
"An Arabian Girl and 40 Thieves ? Broadway Musical ? Original | IBDB"
.
www.ibdb.com
. Retrieved
2021-05-14
.
- ^
Brown, Thomas Allston.
A History of the New York Stage, Vol. III
(1903)
- ^
"Internet Broadway Database"
. Retrieved
2 January
2020
.
External links
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