The run closed August 7, 1893
- Opened
- November 9, 1891
- Closed
- August 7, 1893
- Performances
- 657
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Madison Square Theatre
Of the 147 productions we hold that opened in the 1890s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it16 named
Ollie Archmere
Blanche Arkwright
George Beane
Harry Connor
Lucy Daly
Maggie Daly
Harry Gilfoil
W D Lewis
Geraldine Mccann
Frank E Morse
Arthur Pacie
5 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Charles H. Hoyt
- Producer
- Charles H. Hoyt
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
"After the Ball," interpolated into the show by Charles K. Harris, became the first pop song to sell a million copies of sheet music.
- Another forerunner of Hello, Dolly! was the 1891 musical, A Trip to Chinatown. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 197
- That August saw the return of vaudeville to the New York stage. January 28, 1908, saw a return of legitimate theater with the opening of The Soul Kiss (122 performances) starring Cecil Lean and Adeline Genee. It was followed by Richard Carle in Mary’s Lamb (5/25/08; 16 performances). Another big hit, Miss Innocence (17… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 409
- Earlier shows that displayed unequivocally American themes—for example, the so-called Mulligan shows of Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart between 1879 and 1883, Percy Gaunt and Charles H. Hoyt’s phenomenally successful A Trip to Chinatown in 1891 (657 performances), Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 29
- A Trip to Chinatown contained “Reuben and Cynthia,” “The Bowery,” and Charles K. Harris’s “After the Ball” Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 611
- 1891 4 May: Wang, a show that remained popular for several seasons, opens at the Broadway Theater and runs through the summer. 22 September: Robin Hood, a spectacularly successful comic opera with libretto by Harry B. Smith and music by Reginald De Koven, opens at the Standard Theater. 9 November: A Trip to Chinatown,… Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 14
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for A Trip to Chinatown at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.