Honoria Bedford, Lady Crystal's younger daughter, who is also about to "come out", has taken up smoking, which in 1904 was considered shocking.

The Catch of the Season was produced by Agostino and Stefano Gatti and American Charles Frohman at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, opening on 9 September 1904 and running for a very successful 621 performances.

The production starred Zena Dare as Angela, because Hicks' wife Ellaline Terriss was pregnant.

Frohman produced the musical on both sides of the Atlantic, and one year after the premiere, with the London production still running, he exported The Catch of the Season to Daly's Theatre in New York, where Edna May starred with an English supporting cast and a chorus of English and French "Gibson Girls".

[2][3] The score was supplemented with numerous interpolations, principally by American music director William T. Francis and also by Jerome Kern.