Casino Theatre (New York City)

[1] The theatre was the first in New York to be lit entirely by electricity, popularized the chorus line and later introduced white audiences to African-American shows.It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including Erminie, Florodora, The Vagabond King and The Desert Song.As the center of the Broadway theatre district moved uptown, north of 42nd Street, the Casino closed in 1930.In 1898, it was host to the premiere of Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk, the first African-American musical to be presented before a white audience.[2] Over the next decade, the theatre continued to present musicals and operettas, some of the most successful being A Chinese Honeymoon (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1905) and The Chocolate Soldier (1909).
Souvenir illustration from the theatre's production The Yeomen of the Guard , 1888
Broadway, 1920, looking north from 38th Street, showing the Casino and Knickerbocker Theatres, a sign pointing to Maxine Elliott's Theatre , which is out of view on 39th Street, and a sign advertising the Winter Garden Theatre , which is out of view on 50th Street. The old Metropolitan Opera House and the old Times Tower are visible on the left.
Title page of Erminie , noting its run at the theatre
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