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A Gaiety Girl
''A Gaiety Girl'' is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall (book, on an outline by James T. Tanner), Harry Greenbank (lyrics) and Sidney Jones (music). It opened at Prince of Wales Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes, on 14 October 1893 (later transferring to Daly's Theatre) and ran for 413 performances. The show starred C. Hayden Coffin, Louie Pounds, Decima Moore, Eric Lewis, W. Louis Bradfield, and later Rutland Barrington, Scott Russell, Huntley Wright, Marie Studholme and George Grossmith, Jr. Topsy Sinden and later Letty Lind danced in the piece. Choreography was by Willie Warde. Percy Anderson designed the Japanese costumes for the musical, while the non-Japanese costumes were supplied by leading fashion houses.〔("Gaiety Girls in The Geisha" ). Victoria and Albert Museum, accessed 4 August 2011〕 Blanche Massey was one of the Gaiety Girls in the piece. It also had a successful three-month Broadway run in 1894, followed by an American tour and a world tour.
==Importance in the development of the modern musical==
''A Gaiety Girl'' followed Tanner's and Edwardes's success with ''In Town'' (1892), and would lead to a series of musicals produced by Edwardes that would pack the Gaiety Theatre for decades. Although the earliest of these shows have the same sound one expects from Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, Edwardes called them "musical comedies", leading some writers to incorrectly credit him with inventing a form that Harrigan & Hart had established on Broadway a decade earlier. Although Edwardes was not the true inventor of musical comedy, he was the first to elevate these works to international popularity. According to musical theatre writer Andrew Lamb, "The British Empire and America began to fall for the appeal of the British musical comedy from the time when ''A Gaiety Girl'' was taken on a world tour in 1894."〔Lamb, Andrew. ("From Pinafore to Porter: United States-United Kingdom Interactions in Musical Theater, 1879–1929", ) ''American Music, Vol. 4, No. 1'', British-American Musical Interactions (Spring, 1986), pp. 34-49, University of Illinois Press, retrieved September 18, 2008〕
The plot of ''A Gaiety Girl'' is a simple intrigue about a stolen comb and includes a few tangled romances. Hall's satirical book includes lines which jab at society conventions in the style of an upmarket gossip columnist. The smart society back-chat irritated several people in high places in London who wrote to Edwardes asking for alterations. The public, on the other hand, loved it, even when the Reverend Brierly, a character depicted as a man of doubtful moral rectitude, was demoted, after pressure from Lambeth Palace, to being just plain Dr. Brierly. Satire is also directed, among other things, at the army, and the story ridicules a judge of the divorce court, which caused some controversy.〔"Prince of Wales's Theatre", ''The Times'', 16 October 1893, p. 14〕
''A Gaiety Girl's'' success confirmed Edwardes on the path he was taking. He immediately set Hall, Jones and Greenbank to work on their next show, ''An Artist's Model''. ''A Gaiety Girl'' led to some fourteen copies (including ''The Shop Girl'', ''The Circus Girl'', and ''A Runaway Girl''), which were very successful in England for the next two decades, and were widely imitated by other producers and playwriting teams.
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