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Set aboard the good ship Saucy Kate, with Morley as the captain and Sadie Gale as a lively little midshipman.
Notes
Also possibly related to All Ashore, another Morley revusical staged by Reg Wykeham's Arrivals of 1922 company at the Hippodrome, Sydney.
Production Details
1922: Hippodrome, Sydney, 16-22 September.
Director Spencer Barry; Producer Reginald Wykeham; Music Director Bert Rache.
Troupe The Arrivals of 1922.
Cast incl. Arthur Morley, Sadie Gale, Bert Desmond, Mattie Jansen, Will Gilbert, Dora Gilbert, George Whitehead, The Éclair Bros, Nada Conrade, Sadie Tilburn, Harry Hart, Gladys Gordon, Bilee Lockwood, Essie Davis, The Blanchards, May Topping, Eve Williams, Marjorie Morton, Sydney Garti, Harry Wilson, Lily Alroy, Phyllis Craig, Sybil Stevenson, Bob Driscoll, Alf Driscoll, the Arrivals Quartet, and The Eight 'Hip' Hooray Girls.
Musicians Bert Rache and the Arrivals Orchestra.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Set on the deck of the Saucy Kate, with a cast of characters burlesquing various members of the theatrical and journalist professions, as well as well-known citizens. Characters include Captain Handy Kurr (Andy Kerr, aka 'the Coogee Bunyip', bookmaker and owner of Sydney's Gaiety Theatre), Lieut. Brennan (Martin C. Brennan, vaudeville critic and publisher of Australian Variety), and Kitch Bottomtop (Harry Kitching, editor of Australian Variety).
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