Henrietta Crosman was a favorites of Denver theater audiences. She first appeared at HET in 1899 and in 1903 she returned with her own theatre company.
While Mary Elitch herself recalled that Antoinette Perry’s first appearance on a stage was a walk-on role at the Elitch Theatre in 1899 when she was just 11, her first credited role on a theatre stage was five years later in 1904 when she appeared in the play Olympe as the “Fifth Actress”. [Borrillo, p. 61]
However, we consider Antoinette’s first role to be a walk-on appearance at the Elitch Theatre in 1899.
Theatre Staff:
- Mary Elitch Long, Proprietor and Manager
- T. D. Long, Business Manager
- Charles E. Schilling, Treasurer
- Walter Clarke Bellows, Stage Director
Resident Company:
- Henrietta Crosman
- Lillian Daily
- Katherine Field
- Madge Carr Cook
- Eleanor Robson
- Howell Hansel
- J. Henry Kolker
- Frank McVicars
- Brigham Royce
- Herman A. Sheldon
- Scott Cooper
- Frederick Conger
- Charles Brokate
Productions:
- Week of May 27: The Charity Ball, by David Belasco and Henry C. DeMille (1889).
- Week of June 3: The Senator, by David Lloyd and Sidney Rosenfield (1889).
- Week of June 11: Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand (1898)
- Week of June 18: Too Much Johnson, by William Gillette (1894).
- Week of June 25: Trilby, by Gerald Du Maurier, adapted by Charles Nedler (Apr. 15, 1895).
- Week of July 2: Alabama, by Augustus Thomas (1891).
- Week of July 9: The Ironmaster, by J. W. Prichard, from the French of George Ohnet. Frederick Perry joined the resident company.
- Week of July 16: Madame Sans-Gêne, by Victorien Sardou (1895).
- Week of July 23: Diplomacy, by Victorian Sardon (1878)
- Week of July 30: Cyrano de Bergerac (popular repeat production).
- Week of Aug. 6: Camille. By Alexandre Dumas, fils (1854).
- Week of Aug. 13: A Scrap of Paper, by Victorien Sardou (Sunday matinee through Wednesday evening). Madame Sans-Gene, by Victorien Sardou (Thursday evening through Saturday evening).
- Week of Aug. 20: The Private Secretary, by william Gillette. Maude Fealy joined the company as leading lady.
- Week of Aug. 27: The Masked Ball, by Clyde Fitch (1892).
