The run closed October 29, 1898
- Opened
- September 26, 1898
- Closed
- October 29, 1898
- Performances
- 40
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Wallack's Theatre
Of the 147 productions we hold that opened in the 1890s and record a performance count, this is the 74th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Fortune Teller 2 more that season
| 1919 | Theatre Republic Revival | 68 perf. |
| 1929 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn | 16 perf. |
Who was in it25 named
Fanny Briscoe
William Brown
Annie Clay
William C Deusing
Richard Golden
John T Gray
William H Grimke
Jennie Hawley
J B Henrichs
Nellie Marsh
Paul Nicholson
E Percy Parsons
Frances Sears
J Smith
Marguerite Sylva
Marcia van Dresser
P J Worthington
8 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
- Julian Mitchell
- Producer
- Frank L. Perley
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
- Boley, May Fortune Teller, The, 6 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- The Fortune Teller (1898), and The Singing Girl (1899) all featured roles tailored for soprano Alice Nielsen. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 189
- Among the most successful American works of the time were Reginald De Koven’s Robin Hood (1891) and Victor Herbert’s The Fortune Teller (1898). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 297
- Their more memorable creations, however, premiered by other companies, appeared in the following decade; and they include Robin I load ( 1891 ), El Capitan (1896), and The Fortune Teller(1 898). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 141
- Fortune Teller proved enormously successful though it played only forty performances in New York. It had premiered in Toronto, then came to New York, where it played five weeks at Wallack's Theater. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 148
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 The Fortune Teller at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.