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The Lanergans in Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Mary Elizabeth Smith
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For twenty years beginning in 1857, James West Lanergan owned and operated his own Dramatic Lyceum on King Square in uptown Saint John, New Brunswick. Each summer, with regularity, he returned with a dramatic company to produce the legitimate drama for an audience whose appreciation was shown in its faithful patronage. The result was a widespread and increasing enthusiasm for dramatic entertainment that, in 1872, spawned two more theatres: Bishop's Opera House for variety, and the far more elegant Academy of Music, whose well-equipped stage could accommodate the most modern requirements for spectacle. Lanergan's success in Saint John is undeniable. Appreciated as an artist by his audiences and by the press, and as a public-spirited gentleman by the citizenry, he made money as well as friends while he enlivened the cultural life of a city that was then enjoying unprecedented material prosperity.

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Theatre Survey , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , November 1984 , pp. 211 - 223
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1984

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NOTES

1 For detail about Lanergan's career in Saint John, see Smith, Mary Elizabeth, Too Soon the Curtain Fell: A History of Theatre in Saint John 1789–1900 (Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1981)Google Scholar, especially chapter III, which is entitled “Lanergan's Lyceum in the Golden Age.”

2 The Times and General Commercial Gazette, 6 09, 17 & 27 10, et al., 1860.Google Scholar

3 Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, 3 10 1863.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., 9 October 1863.

5 Ibid., 28 October 1863.

6 Ibid., 26 October 1863.

7 Daily Milwaukee News, 24 etc. 11 1863.Google Scholar

8 Chicago Tribune, 17 12 1863.Google Scholar

9 Ibid., 19 December 1863.

10 Courier, 13 06 1863.Google Scholar

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13 Daily Milwaukee News, 28 12 1864Google Scholar. Early in January 1865, Mr. McVicker of Chicago opened a theatre in Milwaukee.

14 Quoted in Dubuque Daily Times, 29 12 1864.Google Scholar

15 Dubuque Herald, 14 01 1865Google Scholar; 12 & 31 December 1864.

16 Detroit Tribune, 9 10 1863.Google Scholar

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18 Dubuque Daily Times, 13 12 1864.Google Scholar

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20 New Brunswick Museum Playbill for 20 June 1866.

21 Dubuque Daily Times, 31 12 1864.Google Scholar

22 Ibid., 29 December 1864.

23 Detroit Tribune, 7 04 1864; 5 February 1864.Google Scholar

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25 Ibid., 5 June 1863.

26 New York Herald, 9 11 1866.Google Scholar

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28 Detroit Tribune, 20 10 1863; 5 April 1864.Google Scholar

29 Ibid., 9 October 1864.

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