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Revusical.
Stiffy and Mo feel very crook, but they manage to keep the pretty nurses amused. The pair also encounter the matron, the head nurse, the doctor, and some very strange strangers.
The 1922 production's 'musical operations' were 'Gay Nurses' (chorus), 'Ma' (Connelly and Davis), 'O'Reilly' (Connors and girls), 'Wondering' (Paul and girls), 'Sure, Sure Sign' (Shaw and girls), 'Bright Eyes' (Connors and Paul), 'Cairo' (Davis and girls), 'Yiddisher Love' (Rene), 'The Older They Get' (Connelly), 'Preacher Makes You Mine' (Connors, Paul, and company), 'Gladness' (Shaw), and the finale 'Married' (company).
Notes
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It is possible that In the Hospital is the same work as another Stiffy and Mo revusical, Oh Doctor, with a slightly different title. During the company's 1918 stay in Brisbane, for example, Oh Doctor was staged in mid-February. However, no advertisements for In the Hospital appear until early July, at which time the troupe was mostly reviving shows from earlier in the season.
Production Details
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1918: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 6-12 July.
- Director Nat Phillips; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
- Troupe Nat Phillips' Stiffy and Mo Company.
- Cast incl. Nat Phillips (Stiffy), Roy Rene (Mo), Daisy Merritt, Caddy Franks, Horace Mann, Dan M. Dunbar, Peter Brooks, Belle Pollard, Walter Jackson [aka Walter Whyte], Vince Courtney, Cliff O'Keefe.
1920: Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, 8-14 May.
- Director Nat Phillips; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
- Troupe Nat Phillips' Stiffy and Mo Company.
- Cast incl. Nat Phillips, Roy Rene, Amy Rochelle, Daisy Merritt, Caddy Franks, Horace Mann, Dan Dunbar, Will Liddle, Lou Harris.
1921: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 10-16 September.
- Director Nat Phillips; Producer Fullers Theatres Ltd.
- Troupe Nat Phillips' Stiffy and Mo Company.
- Cast incl. Nat Phillips, Roy Rene, Daisy Merritt, Dan M. Dunbar, Lola Hunt, Belle Pollard, Gerald Cashman, Walter Jackson [aka Walter Whyte], Dot O'Dea.
1922: Fullers' Theatre, Sydney, 17-23 June.
- Director Nat Phillips; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd; Music Director Charles Ryder; Chorus Rosie Bowie; Costumes Ethel Moar; Business Manager George C. Audley; Stage Manager Dan M. Dunbar.
- Troupe Nat Phillips' Stiffy and Mo Company.
- Cast incl. Nat Phillips, Roy Rene, Gladys Shaw (The Matron), Dan M. Dunbar (The Doctor), Dot Davis [aka Mrs Roy Rene] (The Head Nurse), Queenie Paul (A Crazy Patient), Mike Connors (Swinging the Lead), Keith Connelly (The Sore Finger), Doc O'Brien (Willie), and the Radio Six Girls (Rosie Bowie, Gwen Brandon, Thelma Duff, Flo Wilson, Marie McLaughlin, Phyllis Whisken) as nurses.
- Details sourced from advertised programme in Fuller News 17 June 1922, p.10.
1927: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 15-21 January.
- Director Nat Phillips; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd; Music Director Frank Wilson.
- Troupe Nat Phillips' Whirligigs [aka Stiffy and 'Erb].
- Cast incl. Nat Phillips, Jack Kellaway ('Erb), Daisy Merritt, Dan M. Dunbar, Dan Weldon, Dorothy Manning, May Laurence, Polly Power, and the Radio Six ;
- Musicians Charleston Super Six Symphonists, incl. Frank Wilson (trombone/accordion), 'Tiny' Douglas (violin), Art Dewar (banjo), Frank Morton, and Les Clements (piano).
- In the Hospital was staged as a first-part entertainment during the week of 15-21 January, with another revusical, The Bailiffs, presented on the second half of the programme (along with several sketches and vaudeville turns).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Fun at the Empire
1927
single work
review
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 17 January 1927; (p. 16)
— Review of In the Hospital 1918 single work musical theatre ; The Bailiffs 1925 single work musical theatre
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Fun at the Empire
1927
single work
review
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 17 January 1927; (p. 16)
— Review of In the Hospital 1918 single work musical theatre ; The Bailiffs 1925 single work musical theatre
