Appearing in the theater's first week were the 4 Luciers ("Monarchs of the Musical World"), popular singer Flo Adler, an "up-to-date sketch" by Edith Dembey & Company, comedians Dixon & Fields as German sailors, and the "Majestiscope"-lyrics to popular songs projected on a screen for the audience to sing along with.
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Attendees were met with gray uniformed ushers and free music provided by Charles Nitschke Jr.'s Arion Orchestra. It became the second vaudeville house in Madison when it opened on Saturday, December 15, 1906. ĭesigned by Madison architects Claude & Starck, the Majestic has an irregular footprint due to it being in the center of a triangle-shaped block. On the Biederstaedts purchased the King Street property from developers of the Cantwell block at Pinckney and Doty Streets, previously the site of annual outdoor tent shows featuring horses and touring vaudeville acts.
Otto was a printer at the Democrat Printing Company. By 1900, he was running a gambling house in the basement of the Capital Hotel. Edward had been a railroad brakeman, secondhand goods dealer, and later ran the White House saloon on King Street. Biederstaedt (1865–1912) and his brother Otto, sons of Williamson Street grocer Charles Biederstaedt, whose German ancestors helped establish the Catholic church in Madison. The Majestic Theatre was founded by Edward F.
A newspaper ad promoting the Majestic's vaudeville acts during its opening week in 1906.