The Whirl of New York is a Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 that premiered at Winter Garden Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....

 on June 13, 1921. It was an expanded and substantially re-worked version of The Belle of New York (1897, music by Gustave Kerker

Gustave Kerker

Gustave Adolph Kerker was a German composer and conductor who made a career in London and America. He became a musical director for Broadway theatre productions and wrote the music for a series of musicals.-Life and career:...

 with book and lyrics by Hugh Morton). The show was billed not as a revival but as "founded on The Belle of New York.". The new version had music by Gustave Kerker, Al Goodman and Lew Pollack; book and lyrics by Hugh Morton and Edgar Smith; additional music by Leo Edwards

Leo Edwards (composer)

Leo Edwards was a Broadway composer. He was the brother of Gus Edwards,, who was also a Broadway composer....

; and additional lyrics by Sidney D Mitchell, Cyrus Wood and Cliff Friend. It opened to favourable reviews and ran for 124 performances.

Premiere cast

The premiere cast included:

• John T. Murray (Ichabod Bronson)
• J. Harold Murray
  J. Harold Murray
  .J. Harold Murray was an American baritone. For more than a decade, during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties, he contributed to the development of musical theater by bridging vaudeville, operetta and the modern American musical...
  
   (Harry Bronson)
• Dorothy Ward (Cora Angélique)
• Nancy Gibbs (Violet Gray)
• Joe Keno (Blinky Bill McGuire)
• Rosie Green (Mamie Clancy)
• Louis Mann (Karl Von Pumpernick)
• Shaun Glenville (Doc Sniffkins)

External links

• The Whirl of New York, Internet Broadway Database
  Internet Broadway Database
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   (IBDB).
• New York Times, "The Whirl of New York" Its Name, May 25, 1921, p. 26.
• New York Times, This Week's Events, June 12, 1921, p. 68.
• New York Times, New Summer Show Found Refreshing, June 14, 1921, p. 23.