Gaiety Theatre, Boston (1878)


The Gaiety Theatre of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Washington Street on the block between West and Avery Streets. J. Wentworth oversaw its operations. It occupied the former Melodeon. The Gaiety's 800-seat auditorium featured "walls and ceiling... panelled in pink, with buff, gold and purple borders; the balcony fronts... bronze, gray, and pink." In 1882 it became the Bijou Theatre.