page_title: Gaiety Girls
hierarchical_section_title: Gaiety Girls
caption_attribution_description: English: Source: http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/9009 V&amp;A Theatre Museum. A publicity photo for The Geisha, 1896. The actresses shown are Alice Davis (l), Blanche Massey (c) and Hetty Hamer (r)
context_page_description: Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautiful dancing corps of "Gaiety Girls" appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions. The 1890s Gaiety Girls were respectable, elegant young ladies, unlike the corseted actresses from London's earlier musical burlesques. Later, even the stars of these musical comedies were referred to as Gaiety Girls.
context_section_description: Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes.  The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautiful dancing corps of "Gaiety Girls" appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions.  The 1890s Gaiety Girls were respectable, elegant young ladies, unlike the corseted actresses from London's earlier musical burlesques.  Later, even the stars of these musical comedies were referred to as Gaiety Girls.
caption: Gaiety Girls in The Geisha, 1896; Blanche Massey center
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