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Brewster's Millions (play)

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Original language
  
English

First performance
  
31 December 1906

Place premiered
  
New Amsterdam Theatre

Genre
  
Comedy

Playwright
  
Winchell Smith

Brewster's Millions (play)

Written by
  
Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley

Date premiered
  
December 31, 1906 (1906-12-31)

Adaptations
  
Brewster's Millions (1914)

Brewster's Millions is a play written by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley, based on the 1902 novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon. Producers Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy staged it on Broadway in 1906. The play is about a young man who must spend a million dollars that he has inherited in order to inherit many millions more.

Broadway production

Thompson and Dundy previewed the play at the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey, starting on October 11, 1906. It debuted on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 31, 1906. The production transferred to the Hudson Theatre on February 25, 1907, with the same cast.

The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below:

References

Brewster's Millions (play) Wikipedia