Theatre Register
Standard Theatre

Standard Theatre

Shows · Standard Theatre

Broadway Closed 1879–1919 on this page20 productionsLandmark

The Standard Theatre is an inactive theatre in Toronto that originated as the city's main venue for Yiddish theatre, and later became the Victory Burlesque, which would be the last traditional burlesque theatre in Toronto when it closed in 1975. It is located at 285 Spadina Ave. the corner of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street. The building was erected in 1921 as the Standard Theatre, a venue for live action Yiddish theatre, and was described as the only building in North America built for the purpose of being a Yiddish theatre. It was designed by Benjamin Brown, one of the city's first Jewish architects, and financed by selling shares to members of the large Jewish community of Kensington Mar…

By decade20 productions across 4 decades

  1. 1870s 2
  2. 1880s 10
  3. 1890s 7
  4. 1910s 1

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

1893 Charley's Aunt October 2, 1893 240 perf.
1894 Too Much Johnson November 26, 1894 216 perf.
1879 H.M.S. Pinafore January 15, 1879 175 perf.
1887 Dorothy November 5, 1887 51 perf.
1880 Boccaccio April 19, 1880 · Max Freeman 44 perf.
1891 Robin Hood September 28, 1891 · Harry Dixon 40 perf.
1919 The Whirlwind December 23, 1919 31 perf.
1879 Cox and Box April 14, 1879 7 perf.

Ranked among the 10 runs here that record a performance count. 10 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here20 productions

1879 Cox and Box April 14, 1879 · Original · no show page 7 perf.
1879 H.M.S. Pinafore January 15, 1879 · Original · no show page 175 perf.
1880 Boccaccio April 19, 1880 · Original 44 perf.
1880 The Upper Crust October 28, 1880 · Original · no show page
1881 Patience September 22, 1881 · Original · no show page
1882 Iolanthe November 25, 1882 · Original · no show page
1883 La Jolie Parfumeuse October 26, 1883 · Revival · no show page 1 perf.
1883 Les Cloches De Corneville October 23, 1883 · Revival · no show page 2 perf.
1885 My Milliner's Bill December 21, 1885 · Original · no show page
1886 A Tin Soldier May 3, 1886 · Original · no show page
1887 Dorothy November 5, 1887 · Original · no show page 51 perf.
1887 Paul Kauvar December 24, 1887 · Original · no show page
1891 Robin Hood September 28, 1891 · Revival 40 perf.
1893 Charley's Aunt October 2, 1893 · Original · no show page 240 perf.
1894 The New Boy September 17, 1894 · Original · no show page
1894 Too Much Johnson November 26, 1894 · Original · no show page 216 perf.
1895 Honour November 11, 1895 · Original · no show page
1895 The Capitol September 9, 1895 · Original · no show page
1895 The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown December 2, 1895 · Original · no show page
1919 The Whirlwind December 23, 1919 · Revival · no show page 31 perf.

In the literature3 passages

  • The most celebrated American operetta of the 19th century, Robin Hood was produced by a touring company that first presented it in Chicago in June 1890. Though hastily put together at a total cost of $109.50, the musical caught on and was remounted in a more stylish production. It made an auspicious New York bow at the Standard Theatre (t…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Gilbert and Sullivan are circumspect about fleshly pleasure. More to the point, Sullivan utterly overtook the sophomoric sounds of the native forms and Gilbert was everyone’s first taste of wit in the libretto. Such was the appeal of HMS Pinafore in its premiere season of 1878–1879 that it didn’t just make a hit on Broadway: it saturated…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • or any group of input lines in any proportion through any speaker or group of speakers in any volume proportion. In flexibility and general usefulness, therefore, this system should surpass any standard theatre installation. The amplifier and control apparatus is grouped in a room adjacent to the stage, and the operator is kept informed b…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1932-07_16_7.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.
  • How long 10 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
  • When 12 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.
  • How many seats.
  • Who built it.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.