Articles on alterations to the French Theatre and Grau’s fall there
Event Information
Venue(s):
French Theatre
Manager / Director:
Jacob Grau
Record Information
Status:
Last Updated:
4 April 2018
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
03 Jul 1868Citations
Description of Grau’s alterations (in progress) to the theatre.
“Mr. Grau intends introducing a new style of opera bouffe and spectacle at the French Theatre in the coming Fall. His arrangements with the Parisian artists are nearly completed. They enter in October. Meantime the French Theatre, which has been re-leased for five years, is undergoing material alterations. The entrance is to be brought on a level with the street, the family and dress circle are to be lowered considerably, the stage is to be enlarged, and the building will hereafter be heated with steam instead of with furnaces. The alterations will be completed by the 1st of September, and the expenses will be voluntarily born by Mr. Grau.”
“Manager Grau on Wednesday last, while superintending the alterations now being made at the French theatre [sic], slipped through an unfinished stairway and sustained injuries of quite a serious nature. He is now confined to his bed in consequence; but his physician expects that, with care, he will be out again in a few days.”
“Great Alterations are going on at the French Theatre on Fourteenth street. All the lobbies in the front of the house and the partitions have been torn out, leaving only a skeleton of the circles. Excavations are going on in the cellar, a new entrance is being made at the extreme upper end, the circles are brought out so as to give them a greater depth, and the entire house is being improved in every part for the opening in September, under Grau’s management.”
Brief. “Mr. Grau is rapidly recovering from a painful fall he had last week in overlooking the repairs at the French Theatre.”