Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
- Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
The Knickerbocker Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City.
The 1500-seat theatre was designed by the architect firm of J.B. McElfatrick & Co. It opened as the Abbey Theatre, named after Broadway theatre manager and producer Henry Eugene Abbey, on November 8 1893 with a production of the melodrama "The Countess Valeska".
Following Abbey's death in 1896, Al Hayman and the Theatrical Syndicate group took control of the theatre and rechristened it the Knickerbocker.
In 1906, the theatre introduced the first moving electrical sign on Broadway with an advertisement for its production of "The Red Mill".
Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 the theatre closed and was demolished in 1930.
Notable productions
*1895: "An Enemy of the People"
*1899: "The Merchant of Venice"
*1901: "Quality Street"
*1903: "Romeo and Juliet"
*1904: "Twelfth Night"
*1917: "La Dame aux Camélias"
*1918: "Listen Lester" with Clifton Webb as Jack Griffin [ Parker, John (ed), "Who's Who in the Theatre", 10th revised edition, London, 1947: 1430] .
*1921: "The Merry Widow"
*1924: "Peter Pan"
*1925: "Dearest Enemy"
*1928: "Macbeth"
References
External links
[http://www.ibdb.com/venue.asp?ID=1029 Internet Broadway Database listing]
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