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Contents:

• MONTREAL’S RED LIGHT HISTORY: THE GAYETY THEATRE
• THEATRE REVIEW: LAST NIGHT AT THE GAYETY TEAS OUT THE FUN OF S CY
• THéâTRE GAYETY (MONTRéAL, QUéBEC)
• THéâTRE GAYETY MONTRéAL (DéTAIL)
• FILE:THéâTRE GAYETY (MONTRéAL)
• THéâTRE GAYETY
• LAST NIGHT AT THE GAYETY – APRIL 19 TO MAY 22, CENTR THEATRE
• GAYETY MONTREAL CONCERT SETLISTS
• FILE D2 - THéâTRE GAYETIE à MONTRéAL

MONTREAL’S RED LIGHT HISTORY: THE GAYETY THEATRE

A short say on the Gayety Theatre Montreal. The Gayety Theatre was once a landmark Montreal’s Red Light District.

This say seeks to exame the events of the openg day of one of Montreal’s largt, most popular and long-lived Cabaret theatr, the Gayety Theatre. The openg of the Gayety Theatre on Augt 12, 1912 is a signifint moment Quebec’s history that is a symbol of the morny that was transformg the society of Quebec at the time. Not only do the openg of the Gayety Theatre reprent the peratn of morn forc to Quebequois society, but the Gayety Theatre would also bee an emblem and ultimately a victim of a tenuo perd Quebec history.

THEATRE REVIEW: LAST NIGHT AT THE GAYETY TEAS OUT THE FUN OF S CY

The rise and fall of the Gayety Theatre is also a symbol of the nflict between an urban, morn liftyle origatg out of profound chang brought on by dtrializatn and tradnal valu and moraly. Ultimately and ironilly the Gayety Theatre not only fell victim to forc of tradnal moraly but to forc of ever-evolvg morny as well. The Gayety Theatre built by archects Ross and Macfarlane, was one of Montreal’s first landmarks of morn public entertament.

On Augt 27, 1912, a day after the openg of the Gayety theatre, the Gazette featured an article on page three scribg the events of the openg. The article also highlights the distctly Anglophone, Canadian and Amerin nature of the Gayety Theatre characteristic of many of Montreal’s tablishments at the time. The openg of the Gayety Theatre may be nsired of signifince that the stcture self and the type of public entertament offered was at the height of morny for the time.

The openg of the Gayety Theatre reprents the begng of a new mo of urban life where children and women as well as the fay un as a whole took part the public sphere and nsumed public entertament. In s September 23rd edn of 1923, featured an advertisement wh the headle “At The Gayety Theatre is Entertament for the Whole Fay.

THéâTRE GAYETY (MONTRéAL, QUéBEC)

Although one of the first of s kd, the Gayety Theatre would soon be one of many Cabarets Montreal. Durg the great prsn, Amerin Vville which had been a popular form of entertament at the time and whose acts had often been featured at the Gayety, llapsed. The Gayety Theatre however, ntued to offer entertament to the public.

The Gayety Theatre along wh the other clubs me to be part of a Montreal red light district. Augt 26 1912, the openg day of the Gayety Theatre reprents the begng of morny takg root the society of Quebec.

THéâTRE GAYETY MONTRéAL (DéTAIL)

Ultimately the Gayety Theatre would not only be a symbol of morny but also a symbol of the stggle between morny and tradnal valu that would occur over the next forty years. In the late forti, at the height of the Gayety’s populary as a baret and as part of the red light district, a group of tradnally-md dividuals, some wh ti to Natnalism and Catholicism would beg to target Montreal’s Cabarets.

Evince of this nflict n be noted as early as the 1930s, an article featured the Gazette entled “Case Ma Agast Gayety Theatre” on November 6, 1930 scrib how the Gayety Theatre was briefly forced to shut down bee did not posss the rrect licens to operate. This qut ed many of the Cabarets of Montreal’s red light district to shut down, cludg the Gayety Theatre which shut s doors 1953.

Th Augt 26 1912, the openg of the Gayety Theatre n be nsired a turng pot the history of Quebec. The Gayety Theatre is equally important as a symbol of the tensns between morny and tradnal moraly.

FILE:THéâTRE GAYETY (MONTRéAL)

Ultimately, the Gayety Theatre fell victim to the tensns, closg the fifti, a rult of the qut pursued by the CMP. Jt as morny the form of public entertament, like the Cabarets of the red light district had once uprooted tradnal social patterns Quebec, the Gayety self, fell victim to this pattern of morn novatn. “At The Gayety Theatre is Entertament for the Whole Fay: Sim Williams’ ‘Rad Girls.

“Case Ma Agast Gayety Theatre” Gazette (Montreal, QC), Nov. Origally lled the Gayety Theatre when was nstcted 1912, the buildg was signed by archects Ross and MacFarlane.

THéâTRE GAYETY

The Gayety Theatre enjoyed fancial and cril succs until the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and subsequent Great Deprsn. In 1930, The Gayety was renamed Théâtre s Arts and began offerg French shows. Fally, wh the enomy improvg, 1941 The Mayfair was reborn once more as The Gayety.

LAST NIGHT AT THE GAYETY – APRIL 19 TO MAY 22, CENTR THEATRE

Led by zealo lawyers Jean Drape and Pacifique (Pax) Plante and other uptight cizens, the goal of the Moraly Squad was to clean up the Red Light District, which the Gayety Theatre was loted. However that didn’t stop the wrath of the public thori: 1953, they went on to close down the Gayety Theatre once and for all.

GAYETY MONTREAL CONCERT SETLISTS

Théâtre Gayety (Montréal, Québec). Cyr's Montreal reer 1951, lled Last Night at the Gayety (openg April 19). Like that show, the new one centr on a Montreal landmark: the Gayety Theatre, where St.

FILE D2 - THéâTRE GAYETIE à MONTRéAL

Cyr's cency trial 1951 and her parture om the Gayety soon 1940s Montreal were also a perd of civic anxiety about crime, pecially the cy's numero brothels, gamblg rooms and after-hours bars.