The Gaiety Theatre (1878-1882) of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Washington Street on the block between West and Avery Streets.Boston Almanac. 1879-1882 J. Wentworth oversaw its operations.Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 20, 1881 It occupied the former Melodeon. The Gaiety's 800-seat auditorium featured "walls and ceiling ... panelled in pink, with buff, gold and purple borders; the balcony fronts ... bronze, gray, and pink."King's Handbook of Boston, 4th ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M. King, 1881 In 1882 it became the Bijou Theatre.Boston Athenaeum. Theater History . Bijou Theatre (1882- 1952), 545 Washington Street. Retrieved 2012-03-16
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