[1][2] Other roles on Broadway soon followed, including Bertrand in Bartley Campbell's Siberia (1883), Koulikoff Demetrovitch in A Russian Honeymoon (1883, an adaptation of a play by Eugène Scribe by Mrs. Burton Harris), Cragin in William Young's The Rajah (1883),[3][4] and Count de Brionne in Anselma (1885).
[6][7] Freeman adapted Jacques Offenbach's Orfée aux enfers into the English language 'Orpheus and Eurydice which was performed for the grand opening of Broadway's Bijou Theatre on December 1, 1883.
[13] Freeman directed his first stage work on Broadway in 1896, the comic opera Santa Maria by composer and librettist Oscar Hammerstein I.
[14] Other works he directed on Broadway included the musical Miss Manhattan (1897, libretto by George V. Hobart);[15] Reginald De Koven's operetta The Highwayman (1897);[16] the Edgar Smith and Louis De Lange musical's The Little Host (1898) and Mother Goose (1898);[17][18] and the 1899 revival of Erminie in which Freeman also returned to the stage as Brabazon.
[19] He directed and starred in a few more plays on Broadway, including Ludwig Englander's The Rounders (1899, as Joseph), Hubert Henry Davies's Cynthia (1903), Gustav Kerker and Harry B. Smith's The Blonde in Black (1903, M. Carrousel Ladjos), and Henri Dumay's Mademoiselle Marni (1905); the latter being his last Broadway credit as a director.
His other directing credits on Broadway included Broadway to Tokio (1900), Stanislaus Stange's Quo Vadis (1900), Sweet Anne Page (1900), Theodore Burt Sayre's Manon Lescaut (1901), A Modern Magdalen (1902), Gretna Green (1903), Love's Lottery (1904), and a A China Doll (1904).