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The musical play A Country Girl, or Town and Country, with music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens, is performed at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 729 performances.
A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.
The "musical absurdity" Twirly-Whirly is presented at Weber And Fields' Music Hall, New York City, USA, during a run of 247 performances.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.
The musical When Johnny Comes Marching Home is presented at The New York Theatre, on Broadway and 45th Street, New York City, USA, during a run of 71 performances.Sam Devere's Big Company is playing during a week of shows at The Star Theatre, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Devere is a popular blackface singer, banjo player and songwriter.
Joe W. Spear's Comedians present The Irish Pawnbrokers at Cordray's Theatre, Portland, Oregon, USA. The show is described as "A comedy with music by Edgar Selden".Blackface comedy duo McIntyre And Heath plus The Orpheum Road Show perform during a week of shows at The Orpheum, San Francisco, California, USA. McIntyre And Heath were said to be the best-known, and highest paid, minstrel performers of all time. They are thought to have introduced the "buck and wing" tapdance routine as well as the song Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.
The Rogers Trio, Minona, Sam Singer's Illusion Comedy Company, The Juvenile Vaudevillians and The Britons are appearing at The Chutes, San Francisco, California, USA.
Humpty Dumpty, described as "the gorgeous, beautiful musical extravaganza and pantomime", is presented at The Central Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical comedy The Billionaire, with music by Gustav Kerker and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, is presented during a three month run at Daly's Theatre, New York City, USA.
The musical comedy The Sultan Of Sulu is presented at Wallack's Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 192 performances.A production of the "musical extravaganza" The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with music by Paul Tietjens and A.B. Sloane, plays at The Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 205 performances.Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Comedy Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of just over one month. Eddie Foy is starring in the musical comedy Mr. Bluebeard at the Iroquois Theatre, Chicago, Ilinois, USA, when a fire breaks out, burning the theatre to the ground and killing 602 patrons. The theatre had previously been described as "the newest, the largest and as far as human power could make it, the safest theater in Chicago." Within a year, the disaster will inspire the songs The Iroquois On Fire [1904] by Zella Evans, The Iroquois Fire by Thomas Quigley [an amateur songwriter who witnessed the blaze], The Burning Iroquois [1904] by Mathew Goodwin and Edward Stanley, and The Burning Of The Iroquois [1904] by Thomas R. Confare and Morris S. Silver. More recently, Sheri Kling has composed I Burn For You (Chicago 1903) about the same incident.
