Hoyt's A Midnight Bell "Rehearsing for Sunday"

c. 1889

28 x 41 in (71 x 104 cm)

ID #TOCT004

Original poster for Hoyt's A Midnight Bell opened in the Bijou Theatre.

"Rehearsing for Sunday."

Charles Hale Hoyt, born in 1859, was a brilliant farcical comedy writer who entitled virtually everyone of his plays beginning with a A to bump his name to the top of whatever list he appeared on. He wrote his farces till he passed far too soon at the age of 41 in 1900.

250-500 A Midnight Bell American theatre Charles Hoyt choir chorus Church church chorus church singing feather in hat hats hymns Laughter every minute Original size-28x41 theater theatre toc turn of the century