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[edit]
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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Bibliography[edit]
- Bordman, Gerald; Hischak, Thomas S. (2004). "Seabrooke, Thomas Q.". The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199771158.
- Camner, James; Appelbaum, Stanley, eds. (1981). Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs: 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950. Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486242095.
- Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. (1914). "Seabrooke, Thomas Q.". Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography. American Publishers' Association. p. 144.
- Minton, Maurice M., ed. (August 12, 1893). "Our Gallery of Players: Thomas Q. Seabrooke". The Illustrated American. XIV (182).
- Parker, John, ed. (1912). Who's who in the Theatre, Volume 1. London: Pitman Publishing.
- Strang, Lewis Clinton (1900). "VII: Thomas Q. Seabrooke". Famous Stars of Light Opera. L.C. Page & Company.
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