In 1891, it premiered Cavalleria Rusticana in America, and in 1894 it presented the first Broadway revue, The Passing Show. The Casino hosted a series of successful operettas and other musical theatre pieces in the 1880s and 1890s, including the extraordinarily successful Erminie. It was demolished the same year, along with the nearby Knickerbocker Theatre, to make way for the expanding Garment District. As the center of the Broadway theatre district moved uptown, north of 42nd Street, the Casino closed in 1930. It was first managed by producer and composer Rudolph Aronson, and later by Canary & Lederer from 1894 to 1903, and from 1903 by the Shuberts. The theatre opened with productions by the McCaull Comic Opera Company. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged in 1894 and again when it was rebuilt in 1905 after a fire in 1903. In 1890, New York's first roof garden was added to the theatre. It was built in 1882 more than 15 blocks north of where the theatre district was then centered, 23rd Street. The Casino Theatre, designed in Moorish Revival style by architects Francis Hatch Kimball and Thomas Wisedell, was the first theatre in New York to be lit entirely by electricity. History Souvenir illustration from the theatre's production The Yeomen of the Guard, 1888 It closed in 1930 and was demolished the same year.

It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including Erminie, Florodora, The Vagabond King and The Desert Song. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged in 1894 and again in 1905, after a fire, when its capacity was enlarged to 1,300 seats. 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. Built in 1882, it was a leading presenter of mostly musicals and operettas until it closed in 1930.

The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street in New York City. Francis Hatch Kimball and Thomas Wisedell

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