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William Niblo was born in 1789 in Ireland.
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William Niblo
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Niblo came to America in his youth.
With his first apprenticeship to a coffee-house proprietor of 43 Pine Street he entered upon the career which made his name familiar through half a century of New York history.
Hotel and theatre were often associated in those days, especially in the form of outdoor gardens with platform stages connected with hotels where guests and neighbors and their friends gathered in the evenings to listen to some simple and often topical entertainment, while they partook of light refreshments and discussed the news of the day.
After he had conducted the Bank Coffee House for several years, Niblo decided to invest in the concert garden business as an outlet for both his ambitions and his products.
In 1823 he leased the Columbian Gardens at Broadway and Prince Street on the site of the old circus and started summer night entertainments there, later developing this into the Sans Souci Theatre.
In 1829 he reopened the place as Niblo's Garden. Leaving the old circus arena as it was, he built a small theatre which at once became so great a success that he soon built another, finer and larger than the first. By 1837 this was the fashionable entertainment center in New York life with such attractions as the Ravels (the famous family of acrobats and rope dancers) and a vaudeville company headed by the elder Jefferson, with a dramatic season under the lead of John Sefton, a concert series, and a season of opera in which the outstanding production was The Barber of Seville with Fornasari. Later Niblo's Garden passed through many changes and vicissitudes. The theatre burned in 1846 and was not rebuilt until 1849. The actual direction of the theatre passed through diverse hands, including such competent theatre managers as Henry Palmer and James J. Wallack. Niblo himself does not seem to have been in any more direct relation to the performances than that of lessee of the property.
His personality was strong and his popularity was great, and to him are generally credited the success and distinction of the entire venture, including the long procession of famous theatre folk who were attracted by the quality of the audience at Niblo's Garden and played there during Niblo's management.
In 1850 William Florence made his first New York appearance there. Among the other performances there were Mathilda Heron in Camille, Charles Kean in Hamlet and Macbeth, Edwin Forrest in a series of his tragic impersonations, Henry Wallack, Henry and Thomas Placide, Anna Cora Mowatt, the author of Fashion, E. L. Davenport who made his first New York appearance there, J. H. Hackett in his first New York appearance as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Charlotte Cushman, Dan Rice, Dion Boucicault, Agnes Robertson, George Holland, and Adelina Patti; and in 1866, after Niblo had retired, The Black Crook which carried the fame of Niblo's Garden around the world.
After the death of Francis Lister Hawks he purchased the latter's American history library and presented it to the New York Historical Society. Niblo retired in 1861 and died in 1878.
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Macbeth Travestie (Classic Reprint)
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Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill: Together With Anecdotes and Incidents of His Travels (Classic Reprint)
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Before and Behind the Curtain: Or, Fifteen Years' Observations Among the Theatres of New York
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Macbeth Travestie (Classic Reprint)
Personality
Although Niblo was not highly educated, he picked up a knowledge of literature and art and as he grew more affluent, became somewhat of a collector.
Connections
His wife was Martha (King) Niblo.
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