Abbey's Park Theatre

[1][2] They had previously been involved with the Winter Garden Theatre, which Boucicault left in 1860 and was destroyed in March 1867 in a fire which almost cost Stuart his life.

[6] Edwin Booth, who had been with Stuart at the Winter Garden, was fairly scathing about the whole enterprise: Love's Penance closed on May 6, 1874, and shortly after Fechter withdrew from the management and retired.

[8] The house remained closed until the fall of 1874, when John T. Raymond performed Mark Twain's Colonel Sellers for 100 nights.

[9][5][10] The following season Stuart presented Mr. & Mrs. William J. Florence in Benjamin E. Woolf's The Mighty Dollar which reached its 100th performance on December 13, 1875.

[11] Gold medals were struck for the occasion,[12] but the calamitous failure of Oakey Hall (former Mayor of New York 1869–1872) in his own play The Crucible, and an unprofitable production of F. Marsden's The Clouds early in the winter season of 1876 left him unable to carry on, and Stuart swiftly relinquished control of his theatre.

Abbey put on popular successes like Our Boarding House, set in Chicago, by Leonard Grover, starring Stuart Robson, W. H. Crane and William E.

Boucicault's Dot, a dramatisation of Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth with John E. Owens played at the Park Theatre from January 20, 1879.

[20] Langtry's tour of the US was due to open at the Park Theatre on October 30, 1882, but during the day the building was completely demolished by fire and was never rebuilt.

They declared that the burning of the Park Theatre was the biggest and costliest advertisement ever designed to welcome a star to America's shores.

It was leased by David Belasco, who survived the 1883-1884 season with a new version of his The Stranglers of Paris, adapted from a story by Adolphe Belot.