The Amazons (play)
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance is an 1893 play by Arthur Wing Pinero.[1][2]
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A publicity photo featuring (left to right) Katherine Florence, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Georgia Cayvan, Herbert Kelcey, Bessie Tyree, and Fritz Williams, around 1894
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In this sketch by Marguerite Martyn, the College Club of St. Louis was in rehearsal for “The Amazons,” a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, in which all the parts were played by women, April 1910.
The play subsequently opened the Royal Court Theatre on 7 March 1893 and ran for 111 performances until 8 July 1893. It subsequently opened at the Lyceum Theatre on 19 February 1894.[3]
The plot involves three sisters (Noeline/Noel, Wilhelmina/Willis, and Thomasin/Tommie) raised by their aristocratic father as his male heirs. They have trouble adjusting to society.[4]
The play was revived (again with Billie Burke) and opened at the Empire Theatre on 28 April 1913.[5] The revival included the song "My Otaheitee lady" with music by Jerome Kern, using lyrics by the deceased Charles H. Taylor.[6]
In 1917 it was adapted as a film of the same name.
Broadway cast
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Billie Burke in The Amazons (1913)
- Lorena Atwood as "Sergeant" Shutter
- Barrett Barker as Orts
- Billie Burke as Lady Thomasin
- Miriam Clements as Lady Noeline
- Annie Esmond as Miriam
- Arthur Fitzgerald as Youatt
- Ferdinand Gottschalk as Galfred
- Shelly Hull as Barrington
- Dorothy Lane as Lady Wilhelmina
- Thomas Reynolds as Fitton
- Morton Selten as Rev. Minchin
- Fritz Williams as Andre
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References
- Staff report (March 27, 1893). The Stage. Detroit Free Press
- Staff report (September, 1893). Notes of the Drama.. Chicago Tribune
- Staff report (February 18, 1894). New Bills of the Week. New York Times
- "'The Amazons,' Satire on Mannish Woman, The New Bill at Auditorium" Wichita Daily Eagle (September 18, 1910): 28. via Newspapers.com
- "The Amazons" at IBDB.com.
- Jerome Kern, My Otaheitee lady (New York: Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1913), cover.
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