The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- January 13, 1879
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 153
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Theatre Comique
Of the 77 productions we hold that opened in the 1870s and record a performance count, this is the 6th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it5 named
5 of these 5 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Edward Harrigan
- Producer
- Edward Harrigan & Tony Hart
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
- It was the first of the many Harrigan and Hart plays to exceed one hundred performed performances at a time when an extended run in New York generally lasted a month. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 95
- But the Mulligan plays had a special draw. Because the Mulligan-Hart enterprise operated as a stock company, its actors remained constant while the roles they played tended to change from production to production. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 96
- What’s the first hit song from a Broadway show? ‘The Mulligan Guard’ from The Mulligan Guard Ball (1879)? Hardly; it was a smallish success but it never travelled beyond its theatrical context. Broadway Babies Say Goodnight Musicals Then and Now Mark Steyn, p. 113
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 Mulligan Guard Ball at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.