Theater managers must be as wide awake as editors
The author recalls two managerial lessons from theater history, one via Thomas W. Davey turning away soldout Jackson, Michigan, and another from Schenectady showing managers as proprietor, stage carpenter, and restaurateur. The point: managers must seize opportunities, study every detail, and endlessly outdo yesterday’s success.
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Lence
Indianapolis Journal
New York
Thomas W. Davey
Mirmie Maddern-Fiske
Davey
Lawrence Barrett
Jackson
Mich
Denmark
Tom
Barrett
Insson
Schenectady
N. Y
Senate
Paris
Carpenter
Mansfield
Susman
Edof
Banquo
Mimi
How a Producing Manager Works in American Theatre
A detailed portrait of a top producing manager’s daily routine and skills. It covers morning finance reviews, international agent communications, rapid dispatch by wire, paper stands and posters, reading plays with a hired reader, and constant negotiations with actors, authors, and talent. It notes literary input, newspaper training, and notable managers who shaped practice, emphasizing adaptability, public taste, and the role of beauty in casting and staging.
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America
London
Paris
New Yorker
Dan Frohman
New York Tribune
New York
Frank Farrell
New Orleans Picayune
Esmeralda
Winthrop
Hazel Kirk
John McCullough
Captain Connor
New Orleans
Barney
L'Enfant Prodigue
Cleveland Plain Dealer
William Stuart
Booth
Thomas W. Davey
Davey
Lawrence Barrett
United States
Detroit
Senator Chandler
John Stetson
The New Opera Craft and the Theater Man
The article discusses how American producers develop original operatic works and pantomime acts, emphasizing self reliance in composing, libretting, staging, and costume creation. It notes Ed Rice’s habit of inventing airs and the need for nerve and business savvy to succeed in theater life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Himaeck
London
Ed Rice
Edward E. Rice
The Lesson of Love by Rev Lyman Abbott
A sermon by Rev Lyman Abbott on love as a divine harmony. He says mothers fear idolatry but love cannot be excessive. idolatry is loving things, not people. All affections form a single flowered chorus that guides toward love of God through shared human bonds.
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New York
Stetson
Joe Brooks
Abbey
Akron
Schoeffel
Frank Mayo
Lawrence Barrett
West
Arkansas
McCullough
George W. Lederer
Augustus Harris
Lyman Abbott
God
Parepa Sing Reverie Echoes In A Night Walk
A poem recalling Parepa’s singing and a night walk where a young voice joined in a beloved song. The speaker, now old, remembers the moment of shared love as Parepa’s memory-filling performance lingers in the streetlight.
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Parepa
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