Pique (play)
Pique is an 1875 play produced by Augustin Daly, which had a very successful run of 237 consecutive performances in New York at the Fifth Avenue Theatre.[1][2]
It was based in part on the Florence Marryat novel Her Lord and Master.[3] It debuted on December 14, 1875, and was withdrawn after Saturday, July 29, 1876. It ran in at least two versions in London and also was produced on tour.[4]
The original cast included Maurice Barrymore, where he met his future wife Georgiana Drew.
Though the play was a success, critical response varied from "highly laudatory puff pieces to accusations of excessive sentiment and irritating sensationalism."[4]
Original Broadway cast
- Charles Fisher as Matthew Standish
- D. H. Harkins as Arthur Standish
- Maurice Barrymore as Raymong Lessing
- Frank Hardenbergh as Rga-Monney Jim
- Belle Wharton as Little Arthur
- Fanny Davenport as Mabel Renfrew
- Mrs. G.H. Gilbert as Aunt Dorothy
- Kate Holland as Mother Thames
- Lizzie Griffiths as Sylvie
- John Brougham as Dr. Gossitt
- Jason Lewis as Sammy Dymple
- John Drew, Jr. as Thorsby Gyll
- C.H. Rockwell as Picker Bob
- William Pleater Davidge as Pedder
- W. Beekman as Rattlin
- J. Deaveau as Captain Spears
- Emily Rigl as Lucille Renfrew
- Jeffreys Lewis as Mary Standish (replaced by Georgiana Drew in April 1876)
- Sydney Cowell (daughter of Sam Cowell) as Raitch[5]
References
- ^ "Pique" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The Aldine (Vol. 8, No. 1) (1876)
- ^ The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. II, p. 239 (1999)
- ^ (26 Feb. 1876). "Pique" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The New York Times
- ^ a b Miller, Tice L. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, p. 117 (2007).
- ^ Brown, T. Allston. A History of the New York Stage, Vol. III, p. 12 (1903)
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