Erminie

Erminie (1886). An English musical with libretto by Harry Paulton and music by Edward Jacobowski, it opened at the Casino Theatre less than a year after its English premiere and enjoyed the longest run (571 performances) of any musical during that playhouse's early heyday. Audiences especially admired the clowning of Francis Wilson as the comic vagabond Cadeaux and the song “Lullaby (Dear Mother, in Dreams I See Her).” Though the work was long held in affection and esteem and was successfully revived as late as 1921, it had little real importance in the development of the American musical theatre.

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