Pique_(play)

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Pique (play)

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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]

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It was based in part on the Florence Marryat novel Her Lord and Master.[3] It debuted on December 14, 1875, and was withdrawn after Saturday, July 29, 1876.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

References

  1. [1]
    "Pique" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The Aldine (Vol. 8, No. 1) (1876)
  2. [2]
    The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. II, p. 239 (1999)
  3. [3]
    (26 Feb. 1876). "Pique" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The New York Times
  4. [4]
    Miller, Tice L. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, p. 117 (2007).
  5. [5]
    Brown, T. Allston. A History of the New York Stage, Vol. III, p. 12 (1903)
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