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Crowds along the "Bowery at night," c. 1895 painting by William Louis Sonntag, Jr. Miner's Bowery Theatre was a vaudeville or variety show theater opened in the Bowery of New York by Senator Henry Clay Miner in 1878. [1]
The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.Although it was founded by rich families to compete with the upscale Park Theatre, the Bowery saw its most successful period under the populist, pro-American management of Thomas Hamblin in the 1830s and 1840s.
Miner's Bowery Theatre was a vaudeville or variety show theater opened by Senator Henry Clay Miner in 1878. [50] The theater was known for its method of encouraging anyone to get on stage and perform on amateur nights, and for its method of removing bad performers from the stage by yanking them off with a wooden hook. [51]
Born to a Jewish family, [1] Fields and Weber formed their partnership while still children. [2] The two appeared at Bowery saloons, museums, circuses, and in 1885 made their first stage appearance at Miner's Bowery Theatre, New York when they were just ~this is misquoted from reference ~ nine years old. [3]
Anthony Street Theatre: 1812 1821 Astor Theatre: 1906 1982 Bijou Theatre: 1878 1915 Bowery Theatre: 1845 1929 Broadway Theatre: 1888 1925 Capitol Theatre: 1919 1968 Casino Theatre: 1882 1930 Center Theatre: 1932 1954 Century Theatre: 1906 1932 Chatham Garden Theatre: 1824 1832 Chatham Theatre: 1839 1862 Comedy Theatre: 1909 1942 Daly's 63rd ...
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Ross began as a circus entertainer with P. T. Barnum before his stage debut on April 5, 1885, at Miner's Bowery Theatre in Manhattan as a singer and impersonator. Next he performed with Herman's Transatlantic in a variety act at the Atlantic Gardens Bowery Theater. [1]
Henry Clay Miner (March 23, 1842 – February 22, 1900) was an American theatrical impresario and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1895 to 1897. Biography [ edit ]