Pinafore or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor," the overture of which is the background music for this page.įrontier Days Parade, 1937. The Mikado appeared multiple times and the most popular of all, Although, the Opera House engagedĪ varied schedule of programs ranging from Grand Opera to Barlow-Wilson Minstrals, most popular were Others who played in Cheyenne included Edwin Booth appearing as Hamlet,and Lillie Langtry, the Jersey Lily. Ignacy Paderewski's 1892 national tour which played at the Opera HOuse requiredĪ private railcar, manager, piano tuner, valet, piano tuner, chef, two porters, and, of course, the New York's Casino Company when it played in Cheyenne had a sixy-member company including its own Makeshift opera houses with musical accompanyment by local four-piece "orchestras." In contrast, the Cheyenne Opera HOuse would book in large companies. Rocky Mountain West which was limited to resident stock companies or stagecoach production companies traveling from town to town, playing in There was one difficiency noted, there was no place for theĬheyenne Opera House, 17th Sreet looking west.Ĭheyenne, being located on the main line from theĮast Coast to San Francisco, made larger theatrical presentations possible in contrast to most of the Additionally, theīuilding had a large hall suitable for dances and other large gatherings. The stage was larger than New York's Madison Square Theatre and Haverty's Chicago Theatre. The theatre boasted some nineteen complete changes of sets useful forĪll occasions. The building was lit by both gas and electricity. In the main auditorum the grand chandelier 38 feet above the floor provided lighting in the evening. From the third floor balcony surrounding the lobby, one could look down on theĬrowd below. At the south end of the lobby there was aįireplace. Practice, the programmes had been perfumed by pharmacist George W. Ladies recieved silk blue and white programmes. In the distance is the Elks Lodge at the corner of Central and 17th.Īs the opening night audience poured into the building, they ascended the grand staircase to the central lobby or atrium illuminatedĭuring the day by the skylights above. Opera House in center of photo on the left side of street.
Many of those coming by train undoubtedlyīooked lodgings at the Inter-Ocean Hotel but a block away.ġ7th Street looking east towards Capitol Ave. Special trains brought in an opening night audience from Laramie and Fort Collins. The station is allegedly haunted by an actress awaiting The Royal Strand was torn down in 1905 to make Olivette had played for more than a yearĪt London's Royal Strand Theatre at Aldwych.
Grand Opera House at the end of the month. New York's Fifth Avenue Theatre and opened in Cheyenne before opening at Denver's Tabor Whale who mistook a A Woolwich torpdeo for a rival. The hit song was The Torpedo and the Whale, about a love-smitten
Comley and James Barton's Opera Company ofĮdmund Audran's hit farcical comic opera Olivette. The Opera House opened to a performance by William J. James McDaniel's 500 seat Cheyenne Theatre as the grandest place for theatrical performances in all In May, 1882, the magnificent new $50,000 house opened replacing Public spirited citizens formed a corporation for the construction of the Opera House. Note from the scaffolding on the third floor chimneys and the material outside the Capitol Ave. Platte Valley Overland Stage Photos V Rawlins Rock Springs Rudefeha Mine Sheepherding Sheridan Sherman Shoshoni Superior Thermopolis USS Wyoming Wheatland Wild Bunch Yellowstone Hayden Tom Horn Jackson Johnson County War Kemmerer Lander Laramie Lincoln Highway Lusk Meeteetse Medicine Bow N. Laramie Frontier Days Ghost Towns Gillette G. This Page: The Cheyenne Opera House, Carnegie Library.īig Horn Basin Black Hills Bone Wars Brands Buffalo Cambria Casper Cattle Drives Centennial Cheyenne Chugwater Coal Camps Cody Deadwood Stage Douglas Dubois Encampment Evanston Ft. Cheyenne Opera House - Wyoming Tales and Trals
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