[1][2] Broadway to Tokio has a loose plot in which a mummified Cleopatra awakes inside a New York City museum and discovers her heart is missing.
She first searches New York City for her heart, and then continues her quest west; first taking a train to California and then a ship to Japan.
The action of the musical takes place inside the Eden Musée in New York City; Longacre Square in Tenderloin, Manhattan; aboard a train on the inside of a Pullman car; Golden Gate, San Francisco; aboard a Pacific Mail Steamship; and in the city of Tokyo (spelled Tokio in this work).
[1] The work was produced and directed by Max Freeman, choreographed by Carl Marwig, and Antonio DeNovellis served as music director.
Other leading performers in the production included Otis Harlan as Calcium Lightwayte, Alice Judson as Patti Cadenza, Nick Long as Count Tabledotti, Idalene Cotton as Countess Tabledotti, Ignacio Martinetti as Dynamite D'Cognac, Joseph M. Sparks as Payday Donovan, Josie Sadler as Gretchen and Mrs. Payday Donovan, Mayme Kelso as Anisette, and Charles Kirk as Lee High Hung among others.