| 词条 | Park Theatre (Boston) |
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The Park Theatre (est.1879) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It later became the State cinema.[1] Located on Washington Street, near Boylston Street, the building existed until 1990. {{TOC right}}HistoryIn 1879 Henry E. Abbey, proprietor of Abbey's Park Theatre in New York, opened Boston's Park Theatre.[2] Abbey was one half of the theatrical management firm Abbey and Schoeffel, along with his backer John B. Schoeffel. Schoeffel was assistant manager.{{sfn|Winsor|1881|p=378}} It occupied the building of the former Beethoven Hall, "reconstructed and practically rebuilt;" its 1,184-seat auditorium was "60 feet wide, 63 from the state to the doors, and 50 feet high."[3] It sat on Washington Street at the corner of Boylston Street in today's Chinatown/Theatre district.[4] In the 1890s it presented "farcical comedy."[5] Managers and proprietors included Henry E. Abbey;[6] Jack A. Crabtree;[7][8] Lotta Crabtree;[9] Charles Frohman, Rich & Harris;[10] Lawrence McCarty;[11] John B. Schoeffel (Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau);[6][7] John Stetson Jr.;[12] and Eugene Tompkins.[11][12][13][14] Louis Baer led the 11-piece orchestra in the 1890s.[15] In the 20th century the building became "Minsky's Park Burlesque," the "Hub," "Trans-Lux,"[16][17] and then "The State" cinema.[18] The building survived until its razing in 1990.[19][20] ImagesPerformances{{col-begin}}{{col-1-of-2}}1870s-1880s
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References1. ^As of 1980: "The oldest playhouse in Boston still operating as a theater has seen better days. The State, now a Combat Zone flagship for porn films, opened in 1879 as the Park Theater. It was built by famous actress Lotta Crabtree who also had constructed a private tunnel from the theater to the nearby hotel where she lived. Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield were among the great stars who played the theater as did Jeanne Eagels in her famous role of Sadie Thompson in 'Rain.' The theater did a slow slide into burlesque where Gypsy Rose Lee made her only local strips, and into second runs and down to porn." cf. George McKinnon. "A born-again Wilbur will celebrate success." Boston Globe, 20 Jan 1980 2. ^Henry E. Abbey (1845-1896). "Death of Henry E. Abbey." New York Times, October 18, 1896 3. ^{{Citation |publisher = M. King |author = Moses King |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23442502M/Kings_Handbook_of_Boston |title = Kings Handbook of Boston |publication-date = 1881 |oclc = 778544 }} 4. ^no.619 Washington Street. Boston Almanac, 1880-1882. Boston Almanac and Business Directory, 1887, 1891, 1894. Boston register, 1921 5. ^{{Citation |publisher = D. Appleton and Co. |publication-place = New York |title = Appleton's general guide to the United States and Canada |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24928392M/Appleton's_general_guide_to_the_United_States_and_Canada |publication-date = 1893 |oclc = 11144549 }} 6. ^1 {{Cite book |ref=harv |publisher = Ticknor and Company |publication-place = Boston |title = The memorial history of Boston, v.4 |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24155402M/The_memorial_history_of_Boston |first= Justin |last=Winsor |publication-date = 1881 |oclc = 1838124 }} 7. ^1 {{Citation |publisher = Post Pub. Co. |publication-place = Boston |title = Boston of to-day |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7162628M/Boston_of_to-day |author = Richard Herndon and Edwin M. Bacon, eds. |publication-date = 1892 |oclc = 4430662 }} 8. ^John (Jack) Ashworth Crabtree (1854-1920), brother of Lotta Crabree. Harvard Univ. Lotta Crabtree Will Case, 1870-1928 : Finding Aid 9. ^Dale, Alan (1890). Familiar chats with the queens of the stage. New York: G. W. Dillingham. 10. ^Boston Evening Transcript, 17 April 1908 11. ^1 2 {{Citation |publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company |publication-place = Boston |title = The history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901 |author = Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7196562M/The_history_of_the_Boston_Theatre_1854-1901 |publication-date = 1908 |oclc = 1384867 }} 12. ^1 2 {{Citation |publisher = Broadway Pub. Co. |publication-place = New York |title = Fifty years in the theatrical management |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7252273M/Fifty_years_in_the_theatrical_management. |author = Michael Bennett Leavitt |publication-date = 1912 }} 13. ^Eugene Tompkins (1850-1909). John William Leonard, ed. Men of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporaries. New York: L. R. Hamersly & Company, 1908 14. ^New York Times, 23 February 1909 15. ^{{cite book |ref=harv |editor1-last=Cahn |editor1-first=Julius |date=1898 |title=Julius Cahn's Official Theater Guide |publisher= Empire Theatre Building |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/juliuscahngushil1189hill}} 16. ^CinemaTreasures.org. State Theatre, 617 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111 17. ^Boston Athenæum Theater History, Park Theatre (1879-1990) 18. ^"State Theater 1," no.617 Washington St., Boston. "Downtown Boston theater loses license for 3 days." Boston Globe, 19 July 1983 19. ^Sweeney, Emily. Once a relic of the past, earthy art form sees a revival. Boston Globe, 09 Apr 2009 20. ^McLaughlin, Jeff. "Midtown cultural district headed for reality." Boston Globe, 13 Oct 1987 21. ^1 2 "Boston Notes." The Theatre (NY), no.5, v.1, April 19, 1886 22. ^{{Citation |publisher = State Pub. Co. |publication-place = Boston |title = The playgoers' year-book, for 1888 |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL17937497M/The_playgoers'_year-book_for_1888. |author = Charles E. L. Wingate |publication-date = 1888 }} 23. ^The players blue book. Worcester, Mass.: Sutherland & Storms, 1901 24. ^1 {{Citation |publisher = Dunlap Society |isbn = 0-8337-0577-6 |publication-place = New York |title = Players of the present |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4576404M/Players_of_the_present |author = John Bouvé Clapp and Edwin Francis Edget |publication-date = 1899 |id = 0833705776 }} 25. ^New York Times, June 20, 1897 26. ^New York Times, July 18, 1893 27. ^New York Times, September 12, 1893 28. ^{{Citation |publisher = W. Browne & F. A. Austin |publication-place = New York |title = Who's who on the stage; the dramatic reference book and biographic al dictionary of the theatre |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24156687M/Who's_who_on_the_stage_the_dramatic_reference_book_and_biographic_al_dictionary_of_the_theatre |publication-date = 1906 |oclc = 1548066 }} 29. ^{{Citation |publisher = Beacon Press |isbn = 9780807051122 |publication-place = Boston |title = Banned in Boston: the Watch and Ward Society's Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil |author = Neil Miller |publication-date = 2010 |via=Overdrive }} {{subscription required}} 30. ^The Billboard, Nov. 30, 1907 31. ^Anne Alison Barnet. Extravaganza king: Robert Barnet and Boston musical theatre. Northeastern University Press, 2004 32. ^Original Jan 11, 1904 playbill 33. ^1 Boston Globe, January 5, 1915 34. ^1 Boston Globe, May 22, 1917 35. ^Boston Globe, Feb 10, 1920 36. ^Boston Globe, December 12, 1922 External links{{Commons category|Park Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts)}}
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