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''The Catch of the Season'' is an Edwardian musical comedy by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, with music by Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor, based on the fairy tale Cinderella. It was produced by Agostino and Stefano Gatti and American Charles Frohman at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, opening on 9 September 1904 and running for a very successful 621 performances. The production starred Zena Dare as Angela, because Hicks' wife Ellaline Terriss was pregnant. Later Terriss played the role for a time, ceding it to Dare's sister, Phyllis Dare. It also starred Hicks and Louie Pounds. Belgian-American actress Camille Clifford, who played Sylvia Gibson, became perhaps the most famous "Gibson Girl". Frohman produced the musical on both sides of the Atlantic, and one year after the premiere, with the London production still running, he exported the ''The Catch of the Season'' to Daly's Theater in New York, where Edna May starred with an English supporting cast and a chorus of English and French "Gibson Girls". The score was supplemented with numerous interpolations, principally by American music director William T. Francis and also by Jerome Kern. Other international productions followed. In Budapest ''The Catch of the Season'' was translated as ''A bálkirálynő'' by Jenő Heltai in 1907. The Australian premiere was at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney in 1909. In Vienna ''Die Ballkönigin'', translated by Fritz Lunzer and actor Karl Tuschl, was mounted twice in 1913, first at the Sommertheater Venedig in Wien, then as a holiday entertainment at the Theater an der Wien. London revivals included a 1917 production at the Prince's Theatre. The story concerns Lady Caterham's stepdaughter Angela, who is a debutante about to 'come out' and is 'the catch of the season'. She becomes engaged to the young rake, Lord St. Jermyns, although she really loves the page, Bucket. Honoria Bedford, Lady Crystal's younger daughter, who is about to 'come out', has taken up smoking, which in 1904 was considered very shocking. ==Roles and original cast== *Angela Crystal - Zena Dare *Duke of St. Jermyns - Seymour Hicks *Higham Montague - Stanley Brett *William Gibson - Compton Coutts *Sir John Crystal - Charles Daly *Lady Crystal - Mollie Lowell *Lady Caterham - Rosina Filippi *Almeric Montpelier - Philip Desborough *Lord Dundreary - Sam Sothern *Captain Rushpool - Mervyn Dene *Lord Yatton - Cecil Kinnaird *Miss Caw - Barbara Deane *Hon. Sophia Bedford - Ethel Matthews (Louie Pounds later played the role) *Duchess of St. Jermyns - Ruby Ray *Enid Gibson - Kate Vesey *Princess Schowenhohen-Hohenschowen - Lily Maynier *Clotilde - Helene Blanche *Bucket - Master A. Valchera *Honoria Crystal - Hilda Jacobsen *Sylvia Gibson - Camille Clifford *Footmen, Guests, Gibson Girls, Bridesmaids 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Catch of the Season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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