Thomas Q. Seabrooke
Thomas Q. Seabrooke (October 20, 1860 – April 3, 1913) was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville performer, and impresario who achieved fame as the star of several comic operas and musicals.
Life and career
Thomas Q. Seabrooke was born on October 20, 1860, in Mount Vernon, New York.Herringshaw, p. 144 His birth name was Thomas Quigley.Camner & Appelbaum, p. 20 He was educated in the Mount Vernon City School District until the age of eleven when he was apprenticed to the East Chester National Bank.Minton, p. 186 Shortly before his twentieth birthday, he made his professional stage debut as Bertie Cecil in Cigarette;Parker, p.436 a stage adaptation of the novel Under Two Flags by playwright Henry F. Stone.Strang, p. 123
Seabrooke became a leading actor in numerous comic operas and musicals which were staged on Broadway and toured nationally from the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century.Parker, p.436-437 The most successful of these were The Isle of Champagne (1894),Tabasco (1895), and A Chinese Honeymoon (1902).Bordman & Hischak, p. 553
At the age of 53, Seabrooke died from pneumonia on April 3, 1913, in Chicago.{{cite news|title=Thomas Q. Seabrooke, noted actor, is dead; Pneumonia fatal to comic opera star|work=The Courier-Journal|date=April 4, 1913|page=2}}
References
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- {{cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to American Theatre|first1=Gerald|last1= Bordman|first2=Thomas S.|last2= Hischak|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199771158|chapter=Seabrooke, Thomas Q.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ftQEAAAQBAJ&dq=Thomas+Q.+Seabrooke+1860+1913+%C2%A0Isle+of+Champagne+CHinese&pg=PA553}}
- {{cite book|title=Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs: 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950|year=1981|publisher=Dover Publications|isbn=9780486242095|editor-first1=James|editor-last1= Camner|editor-first2= Stanley|editor-last2= Appelbaum}}
- {{cite book|chapter=Seabrooke, Thomas Q.|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography|page=144|year=1914|publisher=American Publishers' Association|editor-last1=Herringshaw|editor-first1=Thomas William}}
- {{cite journal|title=Our Gallery of Players: Thomas Q. Seabrooke|journal=The Illustrated American|date=August 12, 1893|number=182|volume=XIV|editor-first1=Maurice M.|editor-last1=Minton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hD0_AQAAMAAJ&dq=thomas+q+seabrooke+October+20+1860+mount+vernon&pg=PA186}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hen8jBStLOYC&dq=thomas+q+seabrooke+October+20+1860+mount+vernon&pg=PA436|title=Who's who in the Theatre, Volume 1|publisher=Pitman Publishing|location=London|year=1912|editor-last1=Parker|editor-first1=John}}
- {{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIsNAAAAIAAJ&dq=1880+Cigarette+play+Bertie+Cecil&pg=PA122|chapter=VII: Thomas Q. Seabrooke|first=Lewis Clinton|last=Strang|title=Famous Stars of Light Opera|year=1900|publisher=L.C. Page & Company}}
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Category:19th-century American male actors
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