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BUFFALO — This was to be a year of celebration for New York’s booming gambling industry, with gleaming new casinos opening, rapturous bettors flocking in and a win-win for the state, and a. Don't hesitate to ask any question you like at the table. If a dealer doesn't answer, or is rude, walk away to another table - or another casino. At some of the smaller and less crowded gambling houses, dealers will take time to orient players to new games.
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Types of Casinos in New York
There are four different types of casinos in New York: regular Class III casinos (such as those found in Nevada and New Jersey); Class III Indian casinos; Class II Indian casinos; and pari-mutuel casinos. There are some distinct differences among these New York casinos and they are explained below.
REGULAR CASINOS (Class III)
There are four regular Class III casinos in New York state. All of these New York casinos offer regular table games, such as: blackjack, roulette, craps and baccarat, as well as slots and video poker. The minimum gambling age is 21 at all of these New York casinos and all are open 24 hours, except for Tioga Downs.
INDIAN CASINOS (Class III)
New York Area Casinos
There are five Indian casinos located in upstate New York which offer traditional Class III casino gambling.
All of these casinos are open 24 hours and offer the table games as well as electronic gaming machines. The minimum gambling age is 21 at the three Seneca casinos and 18 at the other two casinos. No public information is available concerning the payback percentages on any gaming machines in New York’s Indian casinos.
INDIAN CASINOS (Class II)
There are some Indian casinos that offer Class II gambling which consist of electronic gaming machines which look like slot machines, but are actually games of bingo and the spinning video reels are for “entertainment purposes only.” No public information is available concerning the payback percentages on the video gaming machines.
PARI-MUTUEL CASINOS
In October 2001, legislation was passed to allow for the introduction of slot machine-type video lottery machines at New York racetracks. Officially referred to as Video Gaming Machines (VGM’s), they are regulated by the New York State Lottery Division.
The VGM’s do not operate like regular slot machines. Instead, they are similar to scratch-off-type lottery tickets with a pre-determined number of winners.
If you are looking for casinos in Manhattan, then you will be disappointed. But, there is one in a neighboring borough. It is Resorts World Casino New York City and it is located in Queens.
All Video Gaming Machine facilities are allowed to be open for 20 hours and day, with varying hours. Some are open 8am-4am, some are open 9am-5am, etc. and all are non-smoking. The minimum gambling age is 18 for playing VGM’s, as well as for pari-mutuel betting.
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The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway, at West 39th Street in New York City. Built in 1882, it was a leading presenter of mostly musicals and operettas until it closed in 1930.[1]
The theatre was the first in New York to be lit entirely by electricity, popularized the chorus line and introduced white audiences to African-American shows. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged and rebuilt in 1905 after a fire, and then seated 1,300. It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including Erminie, Florodora, The Vagabond King and The Desert Song. It closed in 1930 and was demolished the same year.[2]
History[edit]
The Casino Theatre, designed in Moorish Revival style by architects Francis Hatch Kimball and Thomas Wisedell, was the first theatre in New York to be lit entirely by electricity.[3] It was built more than 15 blocks north of where the theatre district was then centered, 23rd Street.[2] In 1890, New York's first roof garden was added to the theatre.[4] It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged and rebuilt in 1905 after a fire in 1903. The redesigned Casino seated 1,300.[3]
The theatre opened with productions by the McCaull Comic Opera Company. It was first managed by producer and composer Rudolph Aronson, and later by Canary & Lederer from 1894 to 1903, and from 1903 by the Shuberts. As the center of the Broadway theatre district moved uptown, north of 42nd Street, the Casino closed in 1930. It was demolished the same year, along with the nearby Knickerbocker Theatre, to make way for the expanding Garment District.[3]
The Casino hosted a series of successful operettas and other musical theatre pieces in the 1880s and 1890s, including the extraordinarily successful Erminie.[5] In 1891, it premiered Cavalleria Rusticana in America, and in 1894 it presented the first Broadway revue, The Passing Show. In 1898, it was host to the premiere of Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk, the first African-American musical to be presented before a white audience.[2]
The theatre is perhaps best remembered, however, as having been the home of the 1900 production of the Edwardian musical comedy, Florodora. In that show, it became the first theatre in New York to feature a chorus line, the 'Florodora Sextet'. The sextet's original lineup included a number of ladies who would later achieve fame and fortune. The production 'elevated the chorus girl into ... an attraction in its own right.'[4]Evelyn Nesbit was a chorus girl in the show in 1901.[3] Over the decades, the theatre also became known for its free Christmas presentations for New York children.[2]
Over the next decade, the theatre continued to present musicals and operettas, some of the most successful being A Chinese Honeymoon (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1905) and The Chocolate Soldier (1909). During World War I, it hosted transfers of several of the Princess Theatre musicals, among other musicals, such as The Blue Paradise (1915) and Sometime (1918). In the 1920s, the theatre was the home of several hit operettas, particularly The Vagabond King and The Desert Song.[1] Although the Casino had led the move uptown by the Broadway theatre district, by 1930, most of the theatres had moved even further north, to the West 40s. The last performance was the opera Faust, in January 1930.[2]
Notable productions[edit]
- 1882: The Queen's Lace Handkerchief
- 1883: The Beggar Student
- 1884: Nell Gwynne
- 1885: Die Fledermaus
- 1886: Erminie
- 1888: The Yeomen of the Guard
- 1891: Cavalleria Rusticana
- 1894: The Passing Show
- 1895: The Wizard of the Nile
- 1896: In Gay New York
- 1897: The Belle of New York
- 1898: Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk
- 1900: Florodora
- 1900: The Casino Girl
- 1901: The Little Duchess
- 1902: A Chinese Honeymoon
- 1903: The Runaways
- 1904: Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!!
- 1905: The Earl and the Girl
- 1909: Havana
- 1909: The Chocolate Soldier
- 1912: The Firefly
- 1912–13: Seasons of Gilbert and Sullivan
- 1914: High Jinks (musical)
- 1915: The Blue Paradise
- 1916: Very Good Eddie
- 1917: Oh, Boy!
- 1918: Oh, Lady! Lady!!
- 1918: Sometime
- 1921: Tangerine
- 1922: Sally, Irene and Mary
- 1923: Wildflower
- 1924: I'll Say She Is – Marx Brothers
- 1925: The Vagabond King
- 1926: The Desert Song
- 1928: My Maryland
- 1929: The New Moon
- 1930: American Opera Company's Madama Butterfly and Faust
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Casino Theatre (Built: 1882 Demolished: 1930 Closed: 1930)'Internet Broadway Database (Retrieved on December 31, 2007)
- ^ abcdeMiller, Tom. 'The Lost 1882 Casino Theatre – 39th Street and Broadway', Daytonian in Manhattan, June 3, 2013, accessed October 21, 2014
- ^ abcdCasino Theatre. World Theatres – Broadway and Off Broadway Theatres, accessed May 24, 2011
- ^ abBloom, Ken. Routledge Guide to Broadway, Routledge (2013), pp. 44–45 ISBN1135871175
- ^IBDB entry for the original New York run, accessed October 21, 2014. See also Stone, David. Violet Melnotte (1855–1935)Archived 2014-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Boise State University, accessed October 21, 2014
External links[edit]
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- Casino Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
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