Good Gracious, Annabelle

Good Gracious, Annabelle is a romantic farce comedy in three acts play by American composer, lyricist and playwright Clare Kummer (1873-1958)[1].

Also found as Good Gracious, Annabelle! (in Englad) or Goodness Gracious, Annabelle (in Australia and South Africa ?)

The original text

Written in 1916, the play opened at the Theatre Republic, New York, on 31 October, 1916 and ran for 111 performances till 1 February, 1917. It was performed in London as Good Gracious, Annabelle! at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1922-1923.

The text was published by Samuel French, New York, in 1922. The musical score was published in New York by McCarthy & Fisher, ©1919.

Translations and adaptations

The play was turned into a musical and produced in New York by Florenz Ziegfield in 1924, but failed.

Performance history in South Africa

1918: First staged in South Africa at His Majesty's Theatre in Johannesburg by the American Dramatic Company, opening on 2 September 1918. In the cast were Marie Tempest, Doris Gilham, Hilda Attenboro, Joan Devine, Graham Browne, Clement May, Roger Barry, Ashton Jarry, Harcourt Collett, Dick Cruikshanks, T.M. Oliff and Herbert Millard. A

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1922 S. French edition, The Internet Archive[2]

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/good-gracious-annabelle-8467

Gerald Martin Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. 2004. Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Oxford University Press: p.269.[3]

Observer, Auckland, New Zealand, 11 January 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Kummer

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