A ticket for the 100th performance at the Footlight Club on Eliot Street. The Footlight Club is America's oldest community theatre and has performed every year since 1877. Founded by young socialites, the Footlight Club has evolved along with its neighborhood. Once, wealthy aristocrats arrived in coaches to enjoy the society of their own kind in an atmosphere of gentility and wealth. The performances sometimes seemed secondary to the social function. Today the Footlight Club draws its membership from Jamaica Plain, other Boston neighborhoods and surrounding communities. Between 1929 and 1939, the Footlight Club presented 15 Boston theatrical premieres, three of which were American premieres. This 1906 ticket requests that, "Ladies will please remove their bonnets."
