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The Social Whirl is a musical comedy in two acts with music by Gustave Kerker, libretto by Charles Doty and Joseph W. Herbert and lyrics by Joseph Herbert which was produced at the Casino Theatre, New York where it ran from 9 April 1906 to 15 September 1906, a total of 195 performances.

Dramatis Personæ

VIOLET DARE   (a Broadway Favorite) Adele Ritchie
MRS. JAMES ELLINGHAM   (a Society Leader) Mabel Fenton
BEEZY   (Colored Attendant in Manicure Parlors) Maude Raymond
GERMAINE DU MONDE   (Owner of the Manicure Parlors) Blanche Deyo
MRS. HOOVER THORPE   (a Society Widow) Caroline Locke
KITTIE LA VERNE   (Soubrette from the West) Ada Lewis
JULIAN ENDICOTT   (a Self-made Man) Charles J. Ross
JAMES ELLINGHAM   (on the Right Side of the Market) Frederic Bond
JACK ELLINGHAM   (Son of James Ellingham) Willard Curtiss
ARTIE ENDICOTT   (Representative of "The Social Whirl") Joseph Coyne
SANDY GRAHAM   (a Party from the West) Mark K. Heisey
LEM HICKS   (his Friend)
JACOB ENDERMAN   (the Professor)
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Charles Halton
BABETTE   (a Manicure) Elizabeth Brice
WAGSTAFFE J. Rider Glynn
POLICEMAN Edward Craven
STABLE BOY Henry Williams

MIDI Files

ACT I   -   Interior of Germaine Du Monde's Manicure Parlors.

ACT II   -   Exterior of Broxville Club House.

The words to song no. 9 were written by Hugh Morton.


External Links
Vocal Score at IMSLP
The Social Whirl at The Guide to Musical Theatre

American Musical Theatre

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