Stars such as Edwin Booth and Lillian Russell were among the early Broadway performers. New York's theater district gradually moved northward during this half century, from The Bowery up Broadway through Union Square and Madison Square, settling around Times Square at the end of the 19th century. Grand hotels were built for upscale visitors. In the United States, New York increasingly became the national capital for tourism and entertainment.
'The Cave' in the basement of the Gruenwald (later Roosevelt) Hotel, New Orleans opened in 1912 said by some to be one of the first nightclubs in the United States
