MusicalComedy FarceOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Oct 23, 1905
Closing Date
Dec 23, 1905
Performances
16
MusicalComedy FarceOriginalBroadway

ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Opening night credits for this production have not yet been finalized.
Theatres
Grand Opera House
(Oct 23, 1905 - Oct 28, 1905)
West End Theatre
(Dec 18, 1905 - Dec 23, 1905)
Description
A musical in three acts
Setting
Act 1: The Hotel Manhattan New York; Act 2: Dove's Nest Villa, Ruraldene, New Jersey; Act 3: Get-Off Junction on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Produced by Frank Howe, Jr.
Book by George V. Hobart; Musical Director: A. Ellis
Produced under the Stage Direction of Richard F. Carroll
Anna Chance
Clara J. ("Peaches," who occupies the only furnished room in)
Edward Gillespie
Bunch Jefferson (John's pal)
Charles E. Grapewin
John Henry
Blanche Howard
Countess Natalie Delmonte Veccio (the real owner of Dove Nest Villa)
Nat Kolb
Kid Dawson (of Vaudeville fame)
Frederick Mower
Senator Peter Grant (John's Guardian )
Kathryn Pearl
Alice Gray (the fiancee of John's friend Bunch)
James Allen
William Gray (John's Admirer)
Ruth Black
Flora Madura (who supplies John's "smokes")
C.D. Burnham
Thompson (clerk at the Hotel Manhattan)
Harry Crandall
Harmony Diggs (the "Sherlock" of Ruraldene)
Myrtle Dale
Lucy (Member of the Keep-Awake Club)
Hugh H. Decker
'Rastus (Station Master of the C.R.R. of N.J.)
John Dillon
O'Hara (the little furniture mover )
 
McGarr (the big furniture mover)
Daisy Fair
Caroline (Member of the Keep-Awake Club)
Stella Hill
Molly (Member of the Keep-Awake Club)
Victor Malley
Bono Bonoscari (John's pet aversion)
Emma Morey
Jubilee Diggs (with social aspirations)
Charles Morton
The Man Who Gets Up and Goes Out
Viginia Sanford
Marietta (Member of the Keep-Awake Club)
Arthur Saunders
Mike (the hotel porter)
William Tammany
Biff (the bell boy)
May Williams
Gladys (Member of the Keep-Awake Club)
Anne E. Winter
Mrs. Peter Grant (everybody's Aunt Martha )
Act 1
Sung By
An Old Time Song and Dance
John Henry and Kid Dawson
Aristocratic Annie
Clara J. and Girls of the Keep-Awake Club
Right in This Old Town
John Henry
Act 2
Sung By
Strolling
Clara J. and John Henry
My Lonesome Louisiana Lady
Clara J. and Chorus of Men
Act 3
Sung By
The St. Cecelia Quartette
Jubilee Diggs, Marietta, Countess Natalie Delmonte Veccio and Mrs. Peter Grant
A Christian Science Game of Pool
John Henry
Finale
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