The run closed November 3, 1917
- Opened
- October 9, 1917
- Closed
- November 3, 1917
- Performances
- 32
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Casino Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 606th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it39 named
Gladys Alexander
Beatrice Allen
George Anderson
Charles Angelo
Charlotte Buckman
Margaret Carhart
Ernest Carr
Paul Cordes
Ward Dewolfe
Ida Diggs
Gerald Eton
Henrietta Fields
Frances Grant
Flora Hollister
Violet Horning
Sylvia Hurd
Alice Kane
Grace Livingston
Marie Milburne
Harry Miller
Francis Murphy
Ruby Norton
Harold Raymond
Mildred Renard
Flo Richardson
Frank Rowe
Ivy Scherer
Frances Schofield
Betty Stivers
Ethel Sykes
Gladys Sykes
Ernest Torrence
Ruth Vale
Ben Wells
Harold Williams
4 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
- Frank Smithson
- Choreographer
- Robert Marks
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
The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street in New York City. Built in 1882, it was a leading presenter of mostly musicals and operettas until it closed in 1930. The theatre was the first in New York to be lit entirely by electricity, popularized the chorus line and later introduced white audiences to African-American shows. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged in 1894 and again in 1905, after a fire, when its capacity was enlarged to 1,300 seats. It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including Erminie, Florodora, The Vagabond King and The Desert Song. It closed i…
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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 Furs and Frills at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.