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Gentleman Joe

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55: 474: 214:, James T. Powers, Clara Wieland, and Flora Irwin. Songs interpolated include "He Wanted Something to Play With" (sung by Powers) and "Honey does you love yer man?" sung by Flora Irwin in blackface. A few notices of the show indicate that new songs were interpolated with frequency. 144:
that dismissed the score: "The music, by Mr. Walter Slaughter, does not contain a single novel, or even passably fresh point, either in melody, harmony or orchestration." The show was written as a vehicle for the comedian
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was Hood's first full-scale musical comedy, and its success prompted him to leave the military to concentrate on his writing. Hood and Slaughter went on to write several more comedies together, including
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in 1897. Hood wrote several successful shows with other librettists, and his English versions of Viennese operettas, such as
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as Pilkington Jones. A second company also presented the show in the British provinces beginning in 1895.
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on 2 March 1895 and ran for a very successful 391 performances despite a poor notice in
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A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, volume III
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production in late 1895 at Miner's Theatre and then the production transferred to the
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in New York City in January 1896. An American production of
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The original production of the musical opened at the
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in 1896 and another successful vehicle for Roberts,
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Index

Harry Carey
Gentleman Joe (film)

Arthur Roberts
Walter Slaughter
Basil Hood
Book
West End
musical comedy
Walter Slaughter
Basil Hood
Prince of Wales's Theatre
The Saturday Review
Bernard Shaw
Arthur Roberts
burlesque
Haymarket Theatre
The Times
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Kitty Loftus
W. H. Denny
Newark, New Jersey
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Bijou Theatre
Louis De Lange
The French Maid
The Merry Widow
"Information from The Music Hall website"
the original
Gentleman Joe, The Hansom Cabbie, p. 571

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