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Belasco Theatre , (11/28/1923 - circa. 3/1924)
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Opening Date:Nov 28, 1923   
Closing Date:Mar 1924 Total Performances:133

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A play in three acts
Setting: Waiting Room in Professor Gambella's Sanatorium on the Plazza di Spagna; Simonetta's dressing room in the "Paradiso" Theatre; Tito Beppi's lodgings -- No. 9 Via Belsiana.


Production Staff
Produced by David Belasco
Written by David Belasco and Tom Cushing; from "Ridi, Pagliaccio" by Faurto Martini
Staged by David Belasco
Costume Design by George Hadden; Scenic Design by Stroppa; Scenes adapted by Victor J. Petry
Cast
Lionel Barrymore Tito Beppi
Flik
a famous clown
Irene Fenwick Simonetta
Harry Craven Second Ragamuffin
Vaughn De Leath Signora Calvaro
an opera singer
Jenny Dickerson Signora Ferice
Charles Firmbach, Jr. First Ragamuffin
Myra Florian Lilly Blanchette
late of the Folies Bergere, Paris
Henry Herbert Prof. Gambella
a celebrated specialist
Alice Horine Signora Torre
Lucille Kahn Margherita
de Monte's daughter
Micheline Keating Signorina Crispi
Ian Keith Luigi Ravelli
Kathleen Kerrigan Signora del Monte
Leah La Roux The Rienzi Sisters
dancer
Nick Long Bibi
the Great
Giorgio Majeroni Father Saverio
Conte Castiglione
Agnes McCarthy Signora Capelli
Rose Morison Giancinta
Simonetta's maid
Guy Nichols Federico
in charge of his office
Thomas Reynolds Signor Del Papa
manager of the "Paradiso"
Susanna Rossi The Rienzi Sisters
dancer
Sidney Toler Flok
a famous clown