Productions
The play opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York on November 11, 1901, produced by Charles Frohman and starring Maude Adams, but ran for only a modestly successful 64 performances. It then opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 17 September 1902 and ran for a very successful 459 performances, starring Ellaline Terriss, Seymour Hicks and Marion Terry, making it one of the first American productions to score a bigger triumph in London than in New York.
The piece enjoyed numerous revivals and tours until World War II. These included a 1913 revival at London's Duke of York's Theatre. A brief revival played in 1908 at the Empire Theatre in New York, starring Adams, and other revivals followed in America, at least into the 1920s.
In 2010, London's Finborough Theatre mounted the first professional production of the piece in London in over six decades.
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