The Shop Girl

[1] Its cast included Seymour Hicks, George Grossmith Jr., Arthur Williams, Edmund Payne, and Ellaline Terriss.

The Shop Girl heralded a new era in musical comedy, and the critics were amazed at the coherent story, as there was hardly any narrative in burlesque.

[3][4] The Shop Girl was first produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre in London, opening on 24 November 1894.

[6] Indeed, during the run of the show, some of the racier lines were removed, as Edwardes recognised that the future of musicals lay in appealing to the respectable Victorian audience.

The New York production of The Shop Girl opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28, 1895 and played for 72 performances.

[1] An attractive and charming London shop girl, Bessie Brent, is in love with Charles Appleby, a poor, but lively medical student from a good family.

She also meets a good-hearted millionaire, John Brown, who had gone out in the steerage of a liner, "to become a miner", and had struck it rich in Colorado.