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The first production was Orpheus and Eurydice, an adaption by Max Freeman of Jacques Offenbach's Orfée aux enfers." [3] [11] [12] Adonis , starring Henry E. Dixey , played its record-breaking run of 603 performances at the Bijou beginning September 4, 1884.
The Bijou Theatre is the oldest building in America that opened as a movie and live performance space and is still operating as a movie theater and live entertainment venue. The story began in 1909 when Lillian L. Ashmun purchased the property, located at 269-275 Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport.
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The first performance held at the Bijou was Little Johnny Jones starring George M. Cohan on the theater’s opening night. In the next several years, performers including the Marx Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie and many others graced the stage, presenting vaudeville, opera, comedy and more.
Jan 22, 2014 · From CinemaTreasures: Built on the site of the former Adelphi/Grand Opera House, the Bijou was the Nashville flagship of the Bijou Amusement Company, one of the first African American theatre chains in the south. For close to forty years, the theatre featured both live performance and film until it was razed in 1957 for construction of the new ...
Mar 5, 2013 · Next came the first of many Bijou appearances by Gregan McMahon's Players - serious amateurs dedicated to dramatic art outside the commercial sphere. Their first offering was Pinero's The Schoolmistress on 15 August 1904.
Jul 27, 2011 · The Bijou had its last police raid in 1996, and six patrons were arrested, Toushin said. In 2000, Bijou’s Erotic Cabaret was launched—a sexual theater made up of sexual themed vignettes with original music, but that ended several years later as business slowed.
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I n May 1905 the Bijou Theatre was the scene of the first performance of Oscar Wilde's play Salome in Britain. It had originally been intended for Sarah Bernhardt, who was to include it in her summer season at the Royal English Opera House (now the Palace Theatre , Cambridge Circus) in 1892 .
