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Furs and Frills

Opened 1917

32 performances

Musical, Early

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A light romantic comedy set in the fashionable world of New York society, where a young woman's pursuit of furs and fancy clothing leads to romantic mix-ups and comedic misunderstandings among the social elite of the early twentieth century.

Music
Silvio Hein
Lyrics
Edward Delaney Dunn
Book
Edward Delaney Dunn

Productions1 on Broadway

1917
Casino TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 9, 1917, directed by Frank Smithson
32 performances

The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street in New York City. Built in 1882, it was a leading presenter of mostly musicals and operettas until it closed in 1930. The theatre was the first in New York to be lit entirely by electricity, popularized the chorus line and later introduced white audiences to African-American shows. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged in 1894 and again in 1905, after a fire, when its capacity was enlarged to 1,300 seats. It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including Erminie, Florodora, The Vagabond King and The Desert Song. It closed i…

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