page_title: Monte Cristo Jr.
section_title: 1919 Broadway musical
hierarchical_section_title: Monte Cristo Jr. / 1919 Broadway musical
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheet music cover for "Sahara" from Monte Cristo Jr.
context_page_description: Monte Cristo Jr. was a Victorian burlesque with a libretto written by Richard Henry, a pseudonym for the writers Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton. The score was composed by Meyer Lutz, Ivan Caryll, Hamilton Clarke, Tito Mattei, G. W. Hunt and Henry J. Leslie. The ballet and incidental dances were arranged by John D'Auban, and the theatre's musical director, Meyer Lutz, conducted. The play's doggerel verse was loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
  The piece was first performed under the management of George Edwardes, premiering at the Gaiety Theatre in London on 23 December 1886. Nellie Farren, E. J. Lonnen, Fred Leslie, Marion Hood and Jenny Lind appeared in the cast during the run, which ended in early October 1887. It was then toured in Britain, and the following year it was mounted in New York and toured in Australia.
  A separate musical of the same name played on Broadway in 1919 with songs by Sigmund Romberg.
context_section_description: A musical with the same name played in New York at the Winter Garden Theatre running for 254 performances from February to October 1919 and was suspended for a month during the Actor's Equity strike. This show had songs with music by Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz, and a book and lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge. Additional music was by Maurice Abrahams, Fred E. Alhert and Earl Carroll, with lyrics by Earl Carroll, Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. The cast for this version included Sam Ash, Gordon Dooley, Flore Revalles, Charles "Chic" Sale and Esther Walker.
caption: Sheet music cover for "Sahara" from the Broadway version (1919)
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