Charles Hale Hoyt (July 26, 1859 - November 20, 1900) was an American dramatist.
Hoyt was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He had a difficult childhood, as his mother died when he was nine years old. He graduated at the Boston Latin School and, after being engaged in the cattle business in Colorado for a time, took up newspaper work, first with the St. Albans (Vt.) Advertiser, and later becoming musical and dramatic critic of the Boston Post.
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Charles Hale Hoyt (July 26, 1859 - November 20, 1900) was an American dramatist.
Hoyt was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He had a difficult childhood, as his mother died when he was nine years old. He graduated at the Boston Latin School and, after being engaged in the cattle business in Colorado for a time, took up newspaper work, first with the St. Albans (Vt.) Advertiser, and later becoming musical and dramatic critic of the Boston Post.
Beginning in 1883, Hoyt turned playwright and wrote a series of twenty farcical comedies (roughly one per year until his death) and a comic opera. Hoyt's plays emphasized individualized characters drawn from the everyday experiences of ordinary people. His 10th play, A Trip to Chinatown (1892), with its hit tune "The Bowery", and his 1883 play, A Milk-White Flag, were the most successful. Hoyt had his own theater, the Madison Square Theater, where A Trip to Chinatown was performed 657 times. He was a highly popular playwright and producer, and was...
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