page_title: Brewster's Millions
section_title: Stage adaptation
hierarchical_section_title: Brewster's Millions / Film, theatrical, television, and radio adaptations / Stage adaptation
caption_attribution_description: Photo from the stage production of Brewster's Millions. This is the yacht scene and Edward Abeles stars as Monty Brewster as he also did in the later film.
context_page_description: Brewster's Millions is a comedic novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, and the novel or play has been adapted into films thirteen times, four of which were produced in India. The plot concerns a young man whose eccentric grandfather leaves him a fortune in a will, with the qualification that he must spend $1 million in the first year or lose the remainder of his inheritance.
context_section_description: The novel was adapted into a Broadway play of the same name by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley. The play debuted at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 31, 1906.
  Opening night principal cast:
  Edward Abeles – 	Montgomery Brewster
  Leslie Bassett –	 	 Fred Gardner
  Gaston Bell –	 	 Horace Pettingill
  Cecile Breton –	 	 Trixie Clayton
  George Clare –	 	 Rawles
  Jack Devereaux –	Subway Smith
  Sumner Gard –	 	 Archibald Vanderpool
  Willard Howe –	 	 Frank Bragdon
  Nestor Lennon –  Colonel Drew
  Emily Lytton –	 	 Mrs. Dan De Mille
  Arthur Morris – 	 Thomas
  Olive Murray –	 	 Barbara Drew
  Josephine Park –	 Janice Armstrong
  George Probert –	 Nopper Harrison
  Eugene Redding –	 Monsieur Bargie
  Albert Sackett – 	 Mr. Grant
  Joseph Woodburn –	 Joseph MacCloud
  The play was later adapted into a musical, Zip Goes a Million.
caption: The yacht scene from the Broadway play. Edward Abeles played Monty Brewster on Broadway as well as in the later film.
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