Pique (play)

Pique
Pique
Date premiered	December 14, 1875
Place premiered	Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre
Original language	English

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It was based in part on the Florence Marryat novel Her Lord and Master.^[3] It debuted on December 14, 1875, and was withdrawn after Saturday, July 29, 1876.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

External links[]

Pique at the Internet Broadway Database

[aldine-1] "Pique" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The Aldine (Vol. 8, No. 1) (1876)

[pique1-2] The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. II, p. 239 (1999)

[source-3] (26 Feb. 1876). "Pique" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The New York Times

[entr-4] Miller, Tice L. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, p. 117 (2007).

[cast-5] Brown, T. Allston. A History of the New York Stage, Vol. III, p. 12 (1903)

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