Quality Street (play)
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Quality Street is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie. It opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York on November 11, 1901, produced by Charles Frohman and starring Maude Adams, but ran for only a modestly successful 64 performances. It then opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 17 September 1902 and ran for a very successful 459 performances, starring Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks, making it one of the first American productions to score a bigger triumph in London. The piece then enjoyed numerous revivals and tours.
Hicks and Terriss moved to a new home, The Old Forge, at Merstham, Surrey. Their cul-de-sac was renamed "Quality Street".
Setting: In Napoleonic times. The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children".
[edit] Roles
- Valentine Brown - Suitor of Miss Phoebe
- Miss Phoebe Throssel - A School Mistress
- Miss Livvy - Alter ego of Phoebe
- Ensign Blades - A Young Officer
- Lieutenant Spicer - A Young Officer
- Susan Throssell - Sister to Phoebe
- Patty - Maid-of-all-work
- Recruiting Sergeant
- A Waterloo Veteran
- Arthur Wellesley Tomson
- Miss Willoughby
- Miss Fanny Willoughby
- Miss Henrietta Turnbull
- Miss Charlotte Parratt
- Isabella
- Harriett