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Thomas Q. Seabrooke

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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

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Thomas Q. Seabrooke was born on October 20, 1860, in Mount Vernon, New York.[1] His birth name was Thomas Quigley.[2] 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.[3] Shortly before his twentieth birthday, he made his professional stage debut as Bertie Cecil in Cigarette;[4] a stage adaptation of the novel Under Two Flags by playwright Henry F. Stone.[5]

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.[6] The most successful of these were The Isle of Champagne (1894),Tabasco (1895), and A Chinese Honeymoon (1902).[7]

At the age of 53, Seabrooke died from pneumonia on April 3, 1913, in Chicago.[8]

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Citations

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  1. ^ Herringshaw, p. 144
  2. ^ Camner & Appelbaum, p. 20
  3. ^ Minton, p. 186
  4. ^ Parker, p.436
  5. ^ Strang, p. 123
  6. ^ Parker, p.436-437
  7. ^ Bordman & Hischak, p. 553
  8. ^ "Thomas Q. Seabrooke, noted actor, is dead; Pneumonia fatal to comic opera star". The Courier-Journal. April 4, 1913. p. 2.

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