The Only Girl is a "musical farce in three acts" with music by Victor Herbert and a book and lyrics by Henry Blossom.[1] The musical is based on the 1912 play Our Wives by Frank Mandel and Helen Kraft. It opened on Broadway at the 39th Street Theatre on November 2, 1914.[2] During its Broadway run it transferred to the Lyric Theatre where it closed on June 5, 1915, after 240 performances.[1] The Broadway production starred Wilda Bennett as the composer Ruth Wilson; Thurston Hall as her librettist Alan Kimbrough; Adele Rowland as the soubrette Patricia La Montrose, a.k.a "Patsy"; Ernest Torrence as the painter Andrew McMurray, a.k.a "Bunkie"; Vivian Wessell as Bunkie's wife; and Jed Prouty as the lawyer Fresh; Josephine Whittell as Margaret Ayer, Fresh's wife.[1]
The London production opened at the Apollo Theatre in the West End on September 25, 1915, and ran for 107 performances.
References
edit- ^ a b c Dan Dietz (2021). "The Only Girl". The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 291–292. ISBN 9781538150283.
- ^ William A. Everett, Paul R. Laird (2015). "The Only Girl". Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical. pp. 260–261.
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