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Niblo's Garden

Niblo's Garden

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Niblo's Garden was a theater on Broadway and Crosby Street, near Prince Street, in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1823 as Columbia Garden which in 1828 gained the name of the Sans Souci and was later the property of the coffeehouse proprietor and caterer William Niblo. The large theater that evolved in several stages, occupying more and more of the pleasure ground, was twice burned and rebuilt. On September 12, 1866, Niblo's saw the premiere of The Black Crook, considered to be the first piece of musical theater that conforms to the modern notion of a "book musical". == Evolution of the building site == William Niblo built Niblo's Theater in 1834 after having opened a…

Everything that played herenothing held

No production we hold names this building. Nine of the 135 venue records are in this position: the building is described and nothing has been joined to it.

In the literature2 passages

  • Van Winkle by Dion Boucicault, almost a hundred years later, in 1855, at Niblo's Garden, was almost more opera than play with music, yet it is often referred to as the start of American musical theatre. It is more generally conceded, however, Contrast (1787), with two songs in it. Riptheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Second-act spectacle in The Black Crook. New York, Niblo's Garden, 1866. [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

What this page does not know

  • What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
  • Who built it.

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