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danger, it is fearful to think what would have been the result. There was only the usual number of policemen and watchmen in attendance, and the panic was such for a few moments that it seemed as if all the audience believed the entire building was in flames, and just ready to fall upon their devoted heads. In addition to what Mr. BOOTH said from the stage, Judge McCLUNN rose in the dress circle, and in a few timely remarks admonished them all to remain quietly in their places, and at the same time tried to show them the danger which would attend a pell-mell rush for the doors, and especially the uselessness of it, inasmuch as the theatre part of the building was known to be on fire. The presence of a squad of policemen soon after so reassured the audience that with a few exceptions, they remained until the close of the performance.
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hand, in an incredibly short space of time the flames had wrapped the entire interior of the Winter Garden in a sheet of fire, and the firemen were unable to work therein owing to the intense heat...By 9 o'clock the flames had reached their limit and the spectacle was one of peculiar grandeur and effect...At 9:15 the roof of theatre fell...The aggregate loss is roughly estimated at $ 250,000. Both the theatre and the hotel are owned by the
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building right before they caught on fire. She was suspected of using phosphorus to help start the fires and was detained. The fire marshal Baker was in charge of investigating how the fires were started, while police tracked down other suspected people. The New York Times said that this rebel attempt was "one of the most fiendish and inhuman acts known in modern times."
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also suffer severe losses. These gentlemen were the joint lessees and managers of the Winter Garden, and their extensive and valuable wardrobes, used in the recent
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and the "Octoroon" thus becomes, in point of fact, the work of the public mind...the public having insisted on rewriting the piece according to its own notions, interprets every word and incident in wholly unexpected lights; and, for aught we know, therefore, the "Octoroon" may prove after all to be
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American stage history, solidified one of the great roles in dramatic history with a single actor. As a critic from the era then wrote: "A really fine actor is as uncommon as a
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tried to burn the city to the ground, which included fires set in the
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on October 19, 1859. The theatre was aptly named The Winter Garden because Boucicault remodeled the theatre extensively, surprisingly cutting the auditorium in half and installing "artificial tropical plants after a Parisian prototype." Boucicault effectively turned the theatre into a "winter
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Included in the wardrobe and also lost was Edwin Booth’s famous Hamlet costume. Rather than rebuild the theatre once again, Booth decided to erect his own theatre twenty blocks uptown on newly fashionable West Twenty-Third Street on the corner of Sixth Avenue, to be called
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valued at $ 60,000 and uninsured...Mr. Booth is a heavy loser by the total destruction of his private wardrobe and many valuable presents. This wardrobe was considered to be the most extensive and valuable one in the possession of any single actor on this continent.
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After Lincoln’s assassination, Edwin Booth went int a self-imposed retirement and asked president Andrew Johnson for his brother's body and had him buried at Green Mount Cemetery in 1865. Finally, in February 1866, he returned to the stage and played his acclaimed
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before an audience in The Winter Garden Theatre that was "packed to the rafters." During the performance the clanging of fire bells could be heard from the streets of New York, as confederate sympathizers during the ongoing
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marathon on March 23, 1865, with a series of what he called "Grand Revivals": a series of classical dramas sumptuously produced at the Winter Garden that began with a highly acclaimed production of
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in Washington D.C., while shouting the historic words of Brutus in ancient Rome. Throughout its seventeen-year history, The Winter Garden Theatre played a significant role in American theatre.
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really great dramatic poet. Yet what Garrick was in Richard III or Edmund Kean in Shylock, we are sure Edwin Booth is in Hamlet."
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Burned buildings and structures in the United States
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1457:, April, 1865, quoted in Charles H. Shattuck.
1453:George William Curtis. "Editor's Easy Chair."
1153:(The Lewis Publishing Company, New York) 1899.
1151:A Standard History of Freemasonry in New York.
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1935:Circle in the Square Theatre
1463:University of Illinois Press
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267:Old Heads and Young Hearts.
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1459:The Hamlet of Edwin Booth.
1309:, December 15, 1859, p. 4.
429:Everybody talks about the
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1909:Stephen Sondheim Theatre
1792:Nederlander Organization
1747:James Earl Jones Theatre
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1971:Vivian Beaumont Theater
1841:Richard Rodgers Theatre
1732:Ethel Barrymore Theatre
1465:; Chicago, 1969. p. 60.
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483:Junius Brutus Booth Jr.
263:Laura Keene's Varieties
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1951:New Amsterdam Theatre
1865:August Wilson Theatre
1860:Al Hirschfeld Theatre
1811:Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1782:Winter Garden Theatre
1541:Brown, Thomas Allston
1296:Online at HathiTrust.
1260:, September 19, 1890.
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1583:Rutigliano, Olivia.
1569:Klein, Christopher.
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