Oh Doctor single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1917... 1917 Oh Doctor
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Revusical.

Stiffy and Mo create mayhem in a medical setting.

Notes

  • Only one Stiffy and Mo revusical titled Oh Doctor has been located to date. None of the reviews or advertising for the production make any reference to a hospital location. Nevertheless, it is possible that this production is the same as another of the company's works, In the Hospital, with a slightly different title. For example, during the company's 1918 stay in Brisbane, Oh Doctor was staged in mid-February, but no advertisements for In the Hospital appear until early July, when the troupe was mostly reviving shows from earlier in the season.

Production Details

  • 1917: Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, 17-23 November.

    • 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], Cliff O'Keefe, Vince Courtney, and the Panama Six (incl. Rosie Bowie, Phyllis Whisken, Dot O'Dea, Gwen Brandon).

    1918: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 16-22 February.

    • Director Nat Phillips; Producer Fullers Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe Nat Phillips' Stiffy and Mo Company.
    • Cast incl. Nat Phillips, Roy Rene, Daisy Merritt, Caddy Franks, Horace Mann, Dan Dunbar, Peter Brooks, Belle Pollard, Walter Jackson [aka Walter Whyte], Vince Courtney, Cliff O'Keefe, and the Panama Six.

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First known date: 1917
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In the Hospital Nat Phillips , Nat Phillips' Stiffy and Mo Revue Company , Nat Phillips's Whirligigs , Fullers' Theatres , 1918 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

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).
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This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive
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