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Produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 24 November 1894, 546 performances.
The Shop Girl, the first of the new "musical comedies, was a huge success. The critics were somewhat amazed that the author had provided quite a coherent story, for there had been no story at all in burlesque. The Shop Girl plot concerned a good-hearted millionaire who, rich beyond the dreams of avarice himself, had come back to London to look for the daughter of his chum of the mining camps, to whom a fortune of the quite respectable sum of four million pounds was due. The millionaire, in full evening dress, with a cape lined with scarlet, sang about how he had gone out in the steerage of a liner, to become a miner, and how he had struck it rich in Colorado. The daughter was Bessie Brent, the shop girl, who had already given her hand and heart to Charles Appleby, a gay but impecunious young medical student of good family. It all works out in the end, of course, with Bessie marrying Charles and everyone has had a grand time.
Dramatis Personæ
| MR. HOOLEY (Proprietor of the Royal Stores) | Mr. Arthur Williams | ||
| CHARLES APPLEBY (a Medical Student) | Mr. Seymour Hicks | ||
| BERTIE BOYD (One of the Boys) | Mr. George Grossmith, Jr. | ||
| JOHN BROWN (a Millionaire) | Mr. Colin Coop | ||
| SIR GEORGE APPLEBY (a Solicitor) | Mr. Cairns James | ||
| COL. SINGLETON (Retired) | Mr. Frank Wheeler | ||
| COUNT ST. VAURIEN (Secretary to Mr. Brown) | Mr. Robert Nainby | ||
| MR. TWEETS (Financial Secretary to Lady Appleby) | Mr. Willie Warde | ||
| MR. MIGGLES (Shopwalker at the Royal Stores) | Mr. Edmund Payne | ||
| LADY DODO SINGLETON (Charlie's Cousin) | Miss Marie Halton | ||
| MISS ROBINSON (Fitter at the Royal Stores) | Miss Katie Seymour | ||
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| ADA SMITH (an Apprentice at the Royal Stores) | Miss Lillie Belmore | ||
[Other "Girls" who figured in this cast were Maud Hill, Helen Lee, Ada Belton,
and Marie Halton, who also played " Lady Dodo."]
- The Music MIDI Files and MP3 files of historical recordings
- Enter Musical Comedy, an article on The Shop Girl from "Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment" by W. Macqueen Pope.
- External Links
- The Shop Girl at Wikipedia
- The Shop Girl at The Guide to Musical Theatre
- Vocal Score at the Internet Archive
Page modified 4 October 2016