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#113 Niblo's Garden
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Oct 8, 2010
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Podcast episode
Description
It's the 1820s and welcome to the era of the pleasure garden, an outdoor entertainment complex delighting wealthy New Yorkers in the years before public parks. Niblo's Garden, at the corner of Broadway and Prince Street, was the greatest of them all, with an exhibit room for panoramas and one of the first proto-restaurants. But it was Niblo's Theatre that set the stage for its reputation in the 19th Century. And in 1866, a production debuted there that would change everything -- the gaudy, much-too-long spectacle The Black Crook, known as the very first Broadway musical.
Music in the episode by Elgar
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Music in the episode by Elgar
www.boweryboyspodcast.com
Released:
Oct 8, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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