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词条 Grand Opera House (Manhattan)
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  1. History

     Fisk and the Grand Opera House  Fisk's murder  Poole and Donnelly  RKO cinema 

  2. References

  3. External links

{{about|the theater in New York City|the theater in Cincinnati|Pike's Opera House (Cincinnati)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}}Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theater in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It was constructed in 1868, at a cost of a million dollars, for distiller and entrepreneur Samuel N. Pike (1822–1872) of Cincinnati. The building survived in altered form until 1960 as an RKO movie theater, after which it was replaced by part of Penn South, an urban renewal housing development.{{r|1872-12-08|WPA|BROWN|page3=599}}[1]

History

Pike's Opera House was built on what had been the property of Clement Clarke Moore, whose home, "Chelsea", has given its name to the neighborhood. The architect was Griffith Thomas.{{r|1867-07-01|KENNION}} The grand auditorium was seventy feet from parquet to dome, with six proscenium boxes and two tiers. It could accommodate 1800 people, but over 3500 were known to have gained admittance at some popular performances. The first performance, on January 9, 1868, was Il trovatore,{{r|1868-01-10}} after which seven operettas by Jacques Offenbach were given in the space of four months. But the theater lost money initially, owing in part to competition from the Academy of Music on 14th Street.{{r|IBDB|BROWN|page2=599|}}

Fisk and the Grand Opera House

Jim Fisk and Jay Gould bought Pike's theater in January 1869 and renamed it the Grand Opera House. Fisk extended the repertory to include more operetta—Offenbach's La Périchole had already received its American premiere there, January 4, 1869—and plays, like Victorien Sardou's La Patrie, expressly translated for the theater. Vehicles for his mistress Josie Mansfield are often reported, though her name does not appear in the detailed cast lists in Brown; her house west of the theater on 23rd Street was connected to the theater, it was reported, by a subterranean tunnel.{{r|WPA}}[2]

Fisk's murder

At the time when Fisk and Gould's failed attempt to corner the market in gold resulted in "Black Friday", September 1869, Fisk barricaded himself in his second-floor premises at the opera house, which served as headquarters for his Erie Railway. When he was shot by his partner, Edward S. Stokes, Fisk's body lay in state in the grand lobby.{{r|IBDB}}

Poole and Donnelly

In 1876, when the authorities began cracking down on theatre fire safety, the Grand Opera House was the only theatre to pass inspection.

A rapid series of managers were unable to make the house a financial success, its overhead swallowing profit. "The house was considered, in theatrical parlance, a 'Jonah', and it was almost impossible to find any respectable manager who would take it," according to Brown. When John Poole and Thomas Lester Donnelly rented it in 1876, it was with the proviso that "a small percentage of the profits should go to the Erie Railway company". The new management lowered the price of admission and catered to the popular tastes of New York's "west side": Uncle Tom's Cabin (in blackface) and Buffalo Bill were among the first season's attractions; theatrical productions were accompanied by "specialty acts".{{r|IBDB|1867-07-01|BROWN|page2=614}}

RKO cinema

For its conversion to the second RKO 23rd Street Theater, Thomas W. Lamb Associates converted it in modern style. It opened August 4, 1938 with a double bill of Having a Wonderful Time and Sky Giant. It closed for demolition on June 15, 1960,{{r|TREASURES}} in order to make way for the Penn South housing development,[3] and was gutted by fire June 29.{{r|TREASURES}}[4] RKO Pictures later constructed a new theater called Chelsea West Cinemas in Penn South just west of the old opera house,[5] now used by the School of Visual Arts as the SVA Theater.[6]

References

Notes
1. ^Pike was a German Jew, born in 1822 in Schwetzingen/Baden, Germany. His birth name was "Samuel N. Hecht"; his family changed the name in 1827 in the USA to "Pike". See: Rehs, Michael. Wurzeln in fremder Erde: Zur Geschichte der südwestdeutschen Auswanderung nach Amerika (Stuttgart: DRW-Verlag, 1984) {{ISBN|3-87181-231-5}}.
2. ^Frances Farmer portrayed her in the wildly inaccurate film The Toast of New York (1937).
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/06/01/archives/23d-st-theatre-fisk-bought-for-showgirl-to-be-demolished.html|title=23d St. Theatre Fisk Bought For Showgirl to Be Demolished|last=Talese|first=Gay|date=1960-06-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-29|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/06/30/archives/doomed-theatre-burns-in-chelsea-empty-opera-house-once-owned-by.html|title=DOOMED THEATRE BURNS IN CHELSEA; Empty 'Opera House' Once Owned by Fisk Razed -- Hotel Is Evacuated|last=O'Kane|first=Lawrence|date=1960-06-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-29|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520New%2520York%2520and%2520Brooklyn%2520Daily%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520New%2520York%2520and%2520Brooklyn%2520Daily%2520%25201962-1969%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520New%2520York%2520and%2520Brooklyn%2520Daily%2520%25201962-1969%2520-%25202538.pdf|title=RKO First In Face-Lifting Projects|last=|first=|date=February 15, 1963|work=Brooklyn Daily|accessdate=May 28, 2018|page=18|via=Fultonhistory.com}}
6. ^{{cite news |last1=Elkies |first1=Lauren |title=Cinematic changes on West 23rd Street: Theater leased by School of Visual Arts |url=https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/cinematic-changes-on-west-23rd-street/ |accessdate=28 November 2018 |work=The Real Deal |date=March 31, 2008}}
7. ^Brown, Thomas Allston. [https://books.google.com/books?id{{=}}mDALAAAAIAAJ A History of the New York Stage, Vol. 2.] (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company; 1903)
8. ^"Grand Opera House". Internet Broadway Database website
9. ^Kennion, John W. [https://books.google.com/books?id=IaJZAAAAYAAJ The Architects' and Builders' Guide] (New York: Fitzpatrick & Hunter, 1868), Part II, pp. 23–24, "Pike's Opera House"
10. ^"RKO 23rd Street Theatre". Cinema Treasures website
11. ^Gody, Lou; Harvey, Chester D.; Reed, James (eds.). [https://archive.org/stream/newyorkcityguide00federich#page/152/mode/2up New York City Guide] (American Guide Series) (New York: Random House, 1939), p. 153
12. ^"A New Metropolitan Theater—Pike's Opera House". New-York Tribune (July 1, 1867), p. 4, col. 6
13. ^"Music: Opening of Pike's Opera House". New-York Tribune (January 10, 1868), p. 4, col. 6
14. ^[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1872/12/08/79203516.pdf "Obituary: Samuel N. Pike"]. The New York Times (December 8, 1872)
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External links

  • {{Commonscat-inline|Grand Opera House (Manhattan)}}
  • "Grand Opera House" Internet Broadway Database website
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