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Bowery Theatre, the Glossary

The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.^[1]

75 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Advertising, Alexander Hamilton, B'hoy and g'hal, Ballet, Blackface, Bowery, Bowery Amphitheatre, Bull's Head Tavern, Canal Street (Manhattan), Chatham Garden Theatre, Chinese Americans, Domestic Manners of the Americans, Edwin Forrest, Emma Goldman, Frances Milton Trollope, Frank Chanfrau, Frontier, Gas lighting, George L. Fox (clown), George Washington Dixon, German Americans, Gilbert R. Spalding, Heinrich Conried, Irish Americans, Irish people, Ithiel Town, James Alexander Hamilton, James Henry Hackett, James Monroe, John M. Trimble, Joseph Proctor, Junius Brutus Booth, Lafayette Street, Louisa Lane Drew, Lower East Side, Mademoiselle D'Jeck, Manhattan, Maria Roda, Marietta Zanfretta, Mathilde Cottrelly, Mazeppa (poem), Melodrama, Minstrel show, Nathaniel Bannister, Nativism (politics), Neoclassical architecture, New York (state), New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834), New York City, ... Expand index (25 more) »
1826 establishments in New York (state)
1929 disestablishments in New York (state)
1929 fires in the United States
Bowery
Buildings and structures demolished in 1929
Commercial buildings completed in 1826
John M. Trimble buildings
Theatres completed in 1826
Yiddish theatre in the United States

Abolitionism in the United States

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

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Advertising

Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.

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Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.

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B'hoy and g'hal

B'hoy and g'hal (meant to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy and gal, respectively) were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the American Civil War.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Blackface

Blackface is the practice of performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment.

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Bowery

The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Bowery Amphitheatre

The Bowery Amphitheatre was a building in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. Bowery Theatre and Bowery Amphitheatre are Bowery and Former theatres in Manhattan.

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Bull's Head Tavern

Bull's Head Tavern was an establishment located on Bowery, a street in Manhattan, New York City. Bowery Theatre and Bull's Head Tavern are Bowery.

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Canal Street (Manhattan)

Canal Street is a major east–west street of over in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States, running from East Broadway between Essex and Jefferson Streets in the east, to West Street between Watts and Spring Streets in the west.

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Chatham Garden Theatre

The Chatham Garden Theatre or Chatham Theatre was a playhouse in the Chatham Gardens of New York City. Bowery Theatre and Chatham Garden Theatre are Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan, Demolished theatres in New York City and Former theatres in Manhattan.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Domestic Manners of the Americans

Domestic Manners of the Americans is a two-volume travel book by Frances Milton Trollope, published in 1832, which follows her travels through America and her residence in Cincinnati, at the time still a frontier town.

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Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806December 12, 1872) was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor.

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer.

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Frances Milton Trollope

Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs.

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Frank Chanfrau

Francis S. Chanfrau (1824 – October 2, 1884) was an American actor and theatre manager in the 19th century.

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Frontier

A frontier is a political and geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary.

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Gas lighting

Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.

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George L. Fox (clown)

George Washington Lafayette Fox (July 3, 1825 – October 24, 1877) was an American actor and dancer who became known for his pantomime Clown roles, and who based the characterizations for these roles on his inspiration Joseph Grimaldi.

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George Washington Dixon

George Washington Dixon (1801?Many biographies list his birth year as 1808, but Cockrell, Demons of Disorder, 189, argues that 1801 is the correct date. This is based on Dixon's records at a New Orleans hospital, which list him as 60 years old in 1861, and a December 11, 1841 article in the Flash that says he was born "some forty years ago".

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Gilbert R. Spalding

"Dr." Gilbert Reynolds Spalding, sometimes spelled Spaulding, (14 January 1812 – 6 April 1880) was an American showman, circus owner and innovator, being the first to own his own showboat, constructed the first showboat to contain an entire circus and in 1856 the first to send an entire circus on tour in its own railroad cars.

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Heinrich Conried

Heinrich Conried (September 3, 1855 – April 27, 1909) was an Austrian and naturalized American theatrical manager and director.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Ithiel Town

Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was an American architect and civil engineer.

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James Alexander Hamilton

James Alexander Hamilton (April 14, 1788 – September 24, 1878) was an American soldier, acting Secretary of State, and the third son of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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James Henry Hackett

James Henry Hackett (March 15, 1800 – December 28, 1871) was an American actor.

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James Monroe

James Monroe (April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.

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John M. Trimble

John Montague Trimble (1815–1867), known professionally as John M. Trimble, was an American builder and theater architect responsible for many prominent theaters in New York, such as Palmo's Opera House, as well as theaters in Buffalo, Richmond, Charleston, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Albany.

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Joseph Proctor

Joseph Proctor (May 7, 1816 – October 2, 1897) was a popular 19th-century American actor.

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Junius Brutus Booth

Junius Brutus Booth (1 May 1796 – 30 November 1852) was an English-American stage actor.

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Lafayette Street

Lafayette Street is a major north–south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan.

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Louisa Lane Drew

Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. Bowery Theatre and Lower East Side are Yiddish theatre in the United States.

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Mademoiselle D'Jeck

Mademoiselle D'Jeck (died 1837) (also D'Jick, Djeck, Djek, D'jek, D'Geck or other varied spellings) was a celebrated elephant who performed in Europe and the United States.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Maria Roda

Maria Roda (1877–1958) was an Italian American anarchist-feminist activist, speaker and writer, who participated in the labor struggles among textile workers in Italy and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Marietta Zanfretta

Marietta Zanfretta (31 August 1832 – 8 February 1898), known as Madame Siegrist, was an Italian tightrope dancer who found success in the United States.

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Mathilde Cottrelly

Mathilde Cottrelly (February 7, 1851 in Hamburg, Germany – June 15, 1933 in Tuckerton, New Jersey) (née Meyer) was a German born stage actress, singer, producer and theatre manager.

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Mazeppa (poem)

Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819.

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Melodrama

A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a very strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.

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Nathaniel Bannister

Nathaniel Harrington Bannister (January 13, 1813 – November 2, 1847) was an American actor and playwright.

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Nativism (politics)

Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of anti-immigration and immigration-restriction measures.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)

Beginning on July 7, 1834, New York City was torn by a huge antiabolitionist riot (also called Farren Riot or Tappan Riot) that lasted for nearly a week until it was put down by military force.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New-York Tribune

The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley.

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Nick of the Woods

Nick of the Woods; or, The Jibbenainesay is an 1837 novel by American author Robert Montgomery Bird.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Park Theatre (Manhattan)

The Park Theatre, originally known as the New Theatre, was a playhouse in New York City, located at 21–25 Park Row in the present Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, about east of Ann Street and backing Theatre Alley. Bowery Theatre and Park Theatre (Manhattan) are Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan, Demolished theatres in New York City and Former theatres in Manhattan.

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Philip Hone

Philip Hone (October 25, 1780 – May 5, 1851) was Mayor of New York City from 1826 to 1827.

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Populism

Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group with "the elite".

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Property insurance

Property insurance provides protection against most risks to property, such as fire, theft and some weather damage.

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Putnam, the Iron Son of '76

Putnam, the Iron Son of '76 is an 1844 American play by Nathaniel Bannister, and his most popular play.

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Samuel Beazley

Samuel Beazley (1786–1851) was an English architect, novelist, and playwright.

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Spirit of the Times

The Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Agriculture, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage was an American weekly newspaper published in New York City.

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Stage management

Stage management is a broad field that is generally defined as the practice of organization and coordination of an event or theatrical production.

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Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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The Road to Ruin (play)

The Road to Ruin is a 1792 comedy play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft.

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Thomas D. Rice

Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time.

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Thomas Flynn (actor)

Thomas Flynn (fl. 1834) was an English-born American actor and comedian who, with his wife, was a popular performer at the Bowery Theatre in the mid-1830s.

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Thomas Holcroft

Thomas Holcroft (10 December 174523 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator.

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Thomas S. Hamblin

Thomas Souness Hamblin (14 May 1800 – 8 January 1853) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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Visual effects

Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.

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William Farren

William Farren (13 May 1786 – 24 September 1861) was an English actor, who was the son of the actor of the same name (born 1754), who played leading roles from 1784 to 1795 at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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Yankee

The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States.

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Yiddish theatre

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community.

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References

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

Also known as American Theater, Bowery, American Theatre (New York), American Theatre, Bowery, Bowery Theater, Bull's Head Theater, Bull's Head Theatre, Fay's Bowery Theater, Fay's Bowery Theatre, Thalia Theatre (New York City).

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1826 establishments in New York (state)

1929 disestablishments in New York (state)

1929 fires in the United States

Bowery

Buildings and structures demolished in 1929

Commercial buildings completed in 1826

John M. Trimble buildings

Theatres completed in 1826

Yiddish theatre in the United States

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