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Shows · The Red Petticoat · Daly's Theatre, 1912

The Red Petticoat, 1912

Opened November 13, 1912

Closed January 4, 1913

61 performances

Daly's Theatre

Original

Broadway

The Red Petticoat
["Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 composer", "Rourke, M. E. (Michael Elder), 1867-1933 lyricist"]

Of the productions that opened in the 1910s, this had the 440th longest run.

Who was in it52 named

A Allenmang
George Averill
Marjorie Barnes
Mildred Barrett
Anita Barretto
Jane Barry
Katherine Belkap
Mack Brown
F Carey
Joseph Carey
V Carey
James B Carson
Millie Dupree
Harry English
F Fabri
Robert Fay
E L Fernandez
Thomas Fulton
Louise Grant
Madge Griffin
Selwyn Joyce
Frances Kennedy
Betty Laboulaye
Geraldine Lameer
Lillian Lawrence
Helen Lee
Charles Macdonald
Donald Macdonald
Joseph Maloney
Joseph B Marvyn
Gladys Meyrick
Catherine Milligan
Gertrude Millington
Jerry Mills
Louise Mink
Frances Moore
Gerald Murphy
George Neville
Henry Norman
Wallace Owen
Joseph Phillips
C Romaine
Sally Ronanyne
Leon Rosenthal
Harry Seid
Dorothy Stevens
Albert Stuart
Marah Vivian

Creative team

Around this production

The Red Petticoat is a musical comedy in 3 acts with music by Jerome Kern and a book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West. The Western-genre musical starred Helen Lowell as tough lady barber Sophie Brush in a fictional rough silver-mining town in Nevada, who gets her man. Songs included "I Wonder", "My Peaches and Cream", "Oh You Beautiful Spring", "The Ragtime Restaurant", and "Since the Days of Grandmamma". The musical was based on a 1911 farcical melodrama by Young titled Next!. It was Kern's first complete score. After a tryout in Philadelphia, the show opened at Daly's Theatre on November 13, 1912, directed by Joseph W. Herbert, and moved to the Broadway Theatre, closing on Ja…

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