[2] In 1884 he scored a big success as the villain Marquis de Baccarat[2] in Broadway's first hit musical, William Gill's Adonis.
Other roles he performed with Daly's company included Dandie Dinmont in Guy Mannering, Flutter in Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem, Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Meddle in Dion Boucicault and John Brougham's London Assurance, Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Stephano in The Tempest, and Touchstone in As You Like It.
Other United States premieres he performed in at Daly's Theatre, Broadway included the roles of Dick Cunningham in Sidney Jones's musical The Geisha,[4] and Sir John Garnett in Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton's The Great Ruby (1899).
[2] In 1898 Gresham choreographed his first Broadway musical, the United States premiere of A Runaway Girl in which he also portrayed Professor Tamarind.
In 1900 he directed his first Broadway play Joseph Arthur's Lost River at Haverly's 14th Street Theatre.