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Fifth Avenue Theatre

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Fifth Avenue Theatre was a Broadway theatre in New York City in the United States located at 31 West 28th Street and Broadway (1185 Broadway). [1]

72 relations: A Runaway Girl, Augustin Daly, Augustus Thomas, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway theatre, Brooklyn Theatre fire, Carlo Goldoni, Charity (play), Charles Francis Coghlan, Clyde Fitch, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Arden, Eleonora Duse, Francis H. Kimball, Francis Marion Crawford, Frank Wyatt, Friedrich Schiller, George Bernard Shaw, George Howells Broadhurst, Georgiana Drew, Gerhart Hauptmann, Gilbert and Sullivan, Gilbert Seldes, H.M.S. Pinafore, Hedda Gabler, Helena Modjeska, Henrik Ibsen, Henry C. Miner, Henry James Byron, Ivan Caryll, J. Cheever Goodwin, J. Comyns Carr, John Drew Jr., John Philip Sousa, John T. Ford, King of Cadonia, La Dame aux Camélias, Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, Leo Ditrichstein, Les cloches de Corneville, Lionel Monckton, Lost, Strayed or Stolen, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Madison Square Theatre, Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859), Mary Stuart (play), Much Ado About Nothing, Museum of the City of New York, ..., Musical theatre, New York City, Oliver Twist, Our Boys, Paignton, Reginald De Koven, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Richard Voss, Savoy opera, Sidney Jones (composer), The Assumption of Hannele, The Devil's Disciple, The Pirates of Penzance, The School for Scandal, Twelfth Night, United States, Vaudeville, Victorien Sardou, W. S. Gilbert, William Shakespeare, Woolson Morse, World War I. Expand index (22 more) »

A Runaway Girl

A Runaway Girl is a musical comedy in two acts written in 1898 by Seymour Hicks and Harry Nicholls.

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Augustin Daly

John Augustin Daly (July 20, 1838June 7, 1899) was one of the most influential men in American theatre during his lifetime.

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Augustus Thomas

Augustus Thomas (January 8, 1857 – August 12, 1934) was an American playwright.

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Broadway (Manhattan)

Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooklyn Theatre fire

The Brooklyn Theatre fire was a catastrophic theatre fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876 in the city of Brooklyn (now a borough of New York City).

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Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

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Charity (play)

Charity is a drama in four acts by W. S. Gilbert that explores the issue of a woman who had lived with a man as his wife without ever having married.

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Charles Francis Coghlan

Charles Francis Coghlan (June 11, 1842–November 27, 1899) was an Anglo-Irish actor and playwright once popular on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Clyde Fitch

Clyde Fitch (May 2, 1865 – September 4, 1909) was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time (c. 1890–1909).

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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until 1982.

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Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

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Edwin Arden

Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (February 4, 1864 – October 2, 1918) was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright.

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Eleonora Duse

Eleonora Duse (3 October 1858 – 21 April 1924) was an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse.

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Francis H. Kimball

Francis Hatch Kimball (1845–1919) was an American architect practicing in New York City, best known for his work on skyscrapers in lower Manhattan and terra-cotta ornamentation.

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Francis Marion Crawford

Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.

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Frank Wyatt

Frank Wyatt (7 November 1852 – 5 October 1926) was an English actor, singer, theatre manager and playwright.

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Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George Howells Broadhurst

George Howells Broadhurst (June 3, 1866 – January 31, 1952) was an Anglo-American theatre owner/manager, director, producer and playwright.

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Georgiana Drew

Georgiana Emma Drew (July 11, 1856 – July 2, 1893), Georgie Drew Barrymore, was an American stage actress and comedian and a member of the Barrymore acting family.

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Vivian Seldes (January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic.

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H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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Helena Modjeska

Helena Modjeska (October 12, 1840 – April 8, 1909), whose actual Polish surname was Modrzejewska, was a renowned actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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Henry C. Miner

Henry Clay Miner (March 23, 1842 – February 22, 1900) was a theatrical impresario and U.S. Representative from New York.

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Henry James Byron

Henry James Byron (8 January 1835 – 11 April 1884) was a prolific English dramatist, as well as an editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.

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Ivan Caryll

Félix Marie Henri Tilkin (12 May 1861 – 29 November 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language.

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J. Cheever Goodwin

John Cheever Goodwin (1850 – December 1912) was an American musical theatre librettist, lyricist and producer.

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J. Comyns Carr

Joseph William Comyns Carr (1 March 1849 – 12 December 1916) was an English drama and art critic, gallery director, author, poet, playwright and theatre manager.

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John Drew Jr.

John Drew Jr. (November 13, 1853 – July 9, 1927) was an American stage actor noted for his roles in Shakespearean comedy, society drama, and light comedies.

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John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic marches.

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John T. Ford

John Thompson Ford (April 16, 1829 – March 14, 1894) was an American theater manager in the nineteenth century.

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King of Cadonia

King of Cadonia is an English musical in two acts with a book by Frederick Lonsdale, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Arthur Wimperis and music by Sidney Jones and Frederick Rosse.

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La Dame aux Camélias

La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias, commonly known in English as Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage.

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Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (February 17, 1862 – October 21, 1935) was an American playwright popular on Broadway in the early twentieth century.

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Leo Ditrichstein

Leo Ditrichstein (January 6, 1865 – June 28, 1928) was an Austrian-American actor and playwright.

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Les cloches de Corneville

Les cloches de Corneville (known in English as The Chimes of Normandy or The Bells of Corneville) is an opera-comique in three acts, composed by Robert Planquette to a French libretto by Louis Clairville and Charles Gabet based on a play by Gabet.

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Lionel Monckton

Lionel John Alexander Monckton (18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924) was an English writer and composer of musical theatre.

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Lost, Strayed or Stolen

Lost, Strayed or Stolen is a musical comedy in four acts with music by Woolson Morse and words by J. Cheever Goodwin, adapted from the French farce Le baptême du petit Oscar by Eugène Grangé and Victor Bernard.

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Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years of study and fasting.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Madison Square Theatre

The Madison Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, on the south side of 24th Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway (which intersects Fifth Avenue near that point.) It was built in 1863, operated as a theater from 1865 to 1908, and demolished in 1908 to make way for an office building.

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Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859)

Mary Antoinette Anderson (July 28, 1859, Sacramento, California – May 29, 1940, Broadway, Worcestershire, U.K.) was an American stage actress.

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Mary Stuart (play)

Mary Stuart (Maria Stuart) is a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career.

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Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in New York City, New York.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

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Our Boys

Our Boys is a comedy in three acts written by Henry James Byron, first performed in London on 16 January 1875 at the Vaudeville Theatre.

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Paignton

Paignton is a seaside town on the coast of Tor Bay in Devon, England.

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Reginald De Koven

Henry Louis Reginald De Koven (April 3, 1859January 16, 1920) was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Richard Voss

Richard Voss (September 2, 1851 – June 10, 1918) was a German dramatist and novelist.

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Savoy opera

Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners.

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Sidney Jones (composer)

James Sidney Jones (17 June 1861 – 29 January 1946), usually credited as Sidney Jones, was an English conductor and composer, who was most famous for composing the musical scores for a series of musical comedy hits in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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The Assumption of Hannele

The Ascension of Little Hannele (Hanneles Himmelfahrt), also known simply as Hannele, is an 1893 play by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann.

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The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw.

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The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You WillUse of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in the First Folio: "Twelfe Night, Or what you will" is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou (5 September 1831 – 8 November 1908) was a French dramatist.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Woolson Morse

Henry Woolson Morse (February 24, 1858 – May 3, 1897), usually credited as Woolson Morse, was an American composer of musical theatre.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Theatre

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