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The Lanergans in Performance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
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For twenty years beginning in 1857, James West Lanergan owned and operated his own Dramatic Lyceum on King Square in uptown Saint John, New Brunswick. Each summer, with regularity, he returned with a dramatic company to produce the legitimate drama for an audience whose appreciation was shown in its faithful patronage. The result was a widespread and increasing enthusiasm for dramatic entertainment that, in 1872, spawned two more theatres: Bishop's Opera House for variety, and the far more elegant Academy of Music, whose well-equipped stage could accommodate the most modern requirements for spectacle. Lanergan's success in Saint John is undeniable. Appreciated as an artist by his audiences and by the press, and as a public-spirited gentleman by the citizenry, he made money as well as friends while he enlivened the cultural life of a city that was then enjoying unprecedented material prosperity.
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1 For detail about Lanergan's career in Saint John, see Smith, Mary Elizabeth, Too Soon the Curtain Fell: A History of Theatre in Saint John 1789–1900 (Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1981)Google Scholar, especially chapter III, which is entitled “Lanergan's Lyceum in the Golden Age.”
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