A Gaiety Girl is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall (book, on an outline by James T. Tanner), Harry Greenbank (lyrics) and Sidney Jones (music). It opened at Prince of Wales Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes, on 14 October 1893 (later transferring to Daly's Theatre) and ran for 413 performances. The show starred C. Hayden Coffin, Louie Pounds, Decima Moore, Eric Lewis, W. Louis Bradfield, and later Rutland Barrington, George Grossmith, Jr., Scott Russell, Huntley Wright and Marie Studholme. Topsy Sinden and later Letty Lind danced in the piece. Choreography was by Willie Warde. Percy Anderson designed the Japanese costumes for the musical, while the non-Japanese costumes were supplied by leading fashion houses.[1] Blanche Massey was one of the Gaiety Girls in the piece. It also had a successful three-month Broadway run in 1894, followed by an American tour and a world tour.
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AGaietyGirl is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall (book, on an outline by James T. Tanner), Harry...
GaietyGirls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George...
the rest of the English-speaking world. The popularity of In Town and AGaietyGirl (1893), led to an astonishing number of hits over the next three decades...
Thomson (1862 – 21 July 1926) was a British dancer and actress who was known as aGaietyGirl. She was awarded £2,500 in a breach of promise case and she...
byplay between the characters. The first of these, In Town in 1892 and AGaietyGirl in 1893 (both of which were produced by Edwardes at the Prince of Wales...
"respectable" corps of GaietyGirls to complete the musical and visual fun. The success of the first of these, In Town (1892) and AGaietyGirl (1893) set the...
dancing, singing GaietyGirls to complete the musical and visual fun. The success of the first of these, In Town in 1892 and AGaietyGirl in 1893, confirmed...
to the United States with a more conservative trend of chorus lines hitting England, including Tiller Girls and GaietyGirls. Chorus lines throughout Western...
portrayal of Tommy in Kipling's poem. In 1893, for the musical play AGaietyGirl, Henry Hamilton (lyrics) and Samuel Potter (music) wrote the song Private...
Rooney was born, his parents were appearing together in a Brooklyn production of AGaietyGirl. He later recounted in his memoirs that he began performing...
Nellie W. Carter, a native of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1920, while they were appearing together in a Brooklyn production of AGaietyGirl, their son Ninnian...
Sylvia Lillian Storey; 4 October 1889 – 20 July 1947) was a British actress and dancer, aGaietyGirl who married an Earl and became known as The Countess...
often happened with GaietyGirls who appeared in Edwardian musical comedies, a chorus girl in The Beauty of Bath went on to marry a nobleman: Sylvia Lillian...
respectable GaietyGirls. Edwardes engaged Studholme to play the small role of Gladys Stourton, one of these GaietyGirls, in the hit musical AGaietyGirl (1893)...
Blanche Massey (c. 1878? – 1929) was aGaietyGirl and actress best known for her stage appearances in London and the United States in the 1890s. Among...
Shrines of Gaiety is a novel by British author Kate Atkinson, published in 2022 by Doubleday. Set in London in the Roaring Twenties, the book centres...
roles in a string of musicals including Marius/Fill-up the Good in Joan of Arc (1891) at the Gaiety Theatre, Harry Fitzwarren in AGaietyGirl (1893),...
February 1901), a comic actor and singer. He appeared in the British provinces, the West End and featured in a round the world tour of AGaietyGirl in 1893 to...
on the stage, was a British actress and politician. Having starred in multiple plays in London, including a period as aGaietyGirl, Philipson left acting...
1927) was an American-born British actress. Beginning her career as aGaietyGirl, she went on to act in featured roles on the London stage in musical...
19th century – popularised in images of Gibson Girls in the United States and Canada and in the GaietyGirls of the London theatre. In the early 1920s, The...
and the following year she was one of the stars of the hit musical AGaietyGirl. In 1895 she appeared with Marie Tempest, Leonora Braham and Sybil Grey...
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