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Whirl-i-gig, 1899

Shows · Whirl-i-gig · Weber And Fields Broadway Music Hall, 1899

Original BroadwayWeber And Fields Broadway Music Hall 270 performances

The run closed May 5, 1900

Opened
September 21, 1899
Closed
May 5, 1900
Performances
270
Previews
Unknown

Of the 147 productions we hold that opened in the 1890s and carry a performance count, this is the 4th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it15 named

George Ali
Pearl Andrews
Frankie Bailey
Peter F Dailey
Lew M Fields
John T Kelly
Bonnie Maginn
Lulu Nichols
Mabel Nichols
Irene Perry
Ilma Pratt
Charles J Ross
Lillian Russell
David Warfield
Joseph M Weber

0 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Producer
Weber & Fields

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • No recording is held for Whirl-i-gig at all.
  • No director named.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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