- (1897) Stage: Wrote libretto (billed as "Hugh Morton"; earliest Broadway credit) for "The Belle of New York' on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by / Musical Director: Gustav Kerker. Choreographed by ]Augusto Francioli'. Directed / produced by George W. Lederer. Casino Theatre (on hiatus from 14 Nov 1897-19 Dec 1897): 28 Sep 1897-26 Dec 1897 (64 performances). Cast: La Petite Adelaide (as "Dance Specialty"), Anna Baldarsara (as "Chorus"), Harriet Bond (as "Gladys Glee"), William Cameron (as "Blinky Bill McGuirk"), Crissie Carlisle (as "Birdie Seed"), Dan Daly (as "Ichabod Bronson"), Ada Dare Cora Angelique"), Bettie Dauble (as "Chorus"), Harry Davenport (as "Harry Bronson"), Harry Dodd (as "Mr. Twiddles"), Ida Doerge (as "Chorus"), Paula Edwards (as "Mamie Clancy"), Agnes Enright (as "Chorus"), George K. Fortescue (as "Doc Snifkins"), Marie George (as "Kissie Fitzgarter"), Winfred Goff (as "Billie Breeze"), Mollie Hoffman (as "Chorus"), Venie Hoffman (as "Chorus"), Sylvia Holte (as "Dorothy June"), Mabelle Howe (as "Marjorie May" / "Little Miss Flirt"), May Knight (as "Chorus"), Lionel Lawrence (as "Fricot" / "Mr. Snooper" / "Ah Bung"), Helen Lord (as "Myrtle Mince"), L.T. MacDonald (as "Mr. Peeper"), Edna May (as "Violet Gray"), Clarice Middleton (as "Chorus"), Phyllis Rankin (as "Fifi Fricot"), Maud Robinson (as "Chorus"), Babette Rodney (as "Pansy Pinns"), George A. Schiller (as "Kenneth Mugg"), John Slavin (as "Count Ratsi Rattatoo"; Broadway debut), William Sloan (as "Count Patsi Rattatoo"), Marie Steinberg (as "Chorus"), Minnie Varrell (as "Mrs. Snuffy"), Austin Walsh (as "William" / "Mr. Snuffy"), David Warfield (as "Karl von Pumpernick"), Laura Witt (as "Chorus"), Rose Witt (as "Queenie Cake"), Sophie Witt (as "Chorus"). NOTES: (1) By "Gilded Age" standards this was a modestly successful Broadway run, but the play would open in London at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 12 Aug 1898 and run for a remarkable 697 performances. (2) Filmed as The Belle of New York (1919), The Belle of New York (1952).
- (1900) Stage: Wrote libretto (billed as "Hugh Morton") for "The Belle of New York", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy (revival). Music by Gustav Kerker. Musical Director: W.H. Batchelor. Choreographed by Augusto Francioli. Directed / produced by George W. Lederer. Casino Theatre: 22 Jan 1900-10 Feb 1900 (24 performances). Cast: William Barry (as "Count Ratsi Rattatoo"), William Cameron (as "Blinky Bill McGuirk"), William P. Carleton (as "Harry Bronson"; Broadway debut), Florence Carlisle (as "Myrtle Mince"), Jessie Carlisle (as "Queenie Cake"), Toby Claude (as "Fifi Fricot"), E.J. Connolly (as "Ichabod Bronson"), Mlle. Dazie (as "Dance Specialty"), Ida Doerge (as "Kissie Fitzgarter"), Teddie DuCoe (as "Drummer Boy"), Erminie Earle (as "Gladys Glee"), George K. Fortescue (as "Doc Snifkins"), Martha Franklin (as "Betty"), John Gilroy (as "Count Patsi Rattatoo"), Lionel Lawrence (as "Mr. Snooper" / "Fricot"), Edna May (as "Violet Gray"), Lafayette McDonald (as "Mr. Twiddles"), Hattie Moore (as "Cora Angelique"), Natalie Olcott (as "Birdie Seed"), Mabel Power (as "Kitty Peach"), Babette Rodney (as "Pansy Pinns"), George A. Schiller (as "Kenneth Mugg"), Elaine Selover (as "Marjorie May"), Ella Snyder (as "Mamie Clancy"), Vina Snyder (as "Dorothy June"), R.J. Struck (as "Mr. Peeper" / "William"), Alice Sullivan (as "Little Miss Flirt"), James E. Sullivan (as "Karl von Pumpernick"), Austin Walsh (as "Mr. Snuffy"), Marie L. Wilson (as "Rosy Love"), Laura Witt (as "Drummer Boy").
- (1901) Stage: Wrote book / lyrics (as "Hugh Morton") for "The Girl from Up There", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by / conducted by Gustav Kerker. Musical Director: George L. Humphrey. Scenic Design by Ernest M. Gros and Ernest Albert. Costume Design by Caroline Seidle. Directed by Julian Mitchell. Herald Square Theatre: 7 Jan 1901-30 Mar 1901 (96 performances). Cast: Charles T. Aldrich, Marie Allen, Edna Aug, Vivian Austin, Grace Belmont, Bobby Burns, Harry Conor, Harry Davenport (as "Bertie Tappertit"), Gladys Earlcott, Virginia Earle, Otis Harlan (note: withdrew from the cast during the run; his role was combined with Harry Kelly's and taken over by Dan Daly as "King Flush"), Maude Harlow, Leonore Harris, N. Hoffman, Georgie Irving, Harry Kelly (note: withdrew from the cast during the run; his role was combined with Otis Harlan's and taken over by Dan Daly as "King Flush"; Broadway debut), Edna May, Jane May, David Montgomery, Louise Monti, Estelle Moyer, Gertrude Moyer, Nellie Paine, Connie Powell, Mabel Powell, Mabel Power, T. Roggerio, Leila Romer, Farren Soutar, Fred Stone, Nella Webb, Lawrence Wheat, Alf C. Whelan, Charles W. Young. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1904) Stage: Wrote (as "Hugh Morton") book for "Glittering Gloria", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by Bernard Rolt. Lyrics by C.M.S McLellan (as "Hugh Morton") and Bernard Rolt. Featuring songs by Jean Schwartz and A. Baldwin Sloane. Featuring songs with lyrics by William Jerome and Edward Abeles. Daly's Theatre (moved to The Grand Opera House from 4 Apr 1904-close): 15 Feb 1904-Apr 1904 (closing date unknown/30 performances). Cast: Marie Allen, Percy Ames (as "Archie Toddleby, Jack's friend"; Broadway debut), Sybil Anderson, Katherine Black, Viola Clayton, Belva Don Kersley, Gertrude Douglas, Lotta Ettinger, Edna Farrell, Amy Forsland, E. Lovat Fraser, Edward Gore, Ferdinand Gottschalk (as "Zebedee Poskett, a rural solicitor"), Olive Haskell, John Hendy, Flora Hengler, May Hengler, May Hopkins, Ethel Intropidi (as "Chorus"), Eugene O'Rourke, Carol Oty, Adelaide Prince, Jessie Radcliffe, Phyllis Rankin, Adele Ritchie (as "Gloria Grant, known as Glittering Gloria"), Forrest Robinson (as "Col. Pasquale Gallagher, from El Paso, Texas"), Frieda Salber, George A. Schiller, Cyril Scott, Lottie Vernon, Marie L. Wilson. Produced by John C. Fisher and Thomas W. Ryley.
- (1904) Stage: Wrote "Leah Kleschna", produced on Broadway. Drama. Directed by Harrison Grey Fiske. Manhattan Theatre: 12 Dec 1904-Apr 1905 (closing date unknown/131 performances). Cast: George Arliss (as "Raoul Berton"), Charles Cartwright (as "Kleschna"), Edward Donnelly (as "Gen. Berton"), Marie Fedor (as "Frieda"), Robert V. Ferguson (as "Herr Linden"), Minnie Maddern Fiske (credited as Mrs. Fiske; as "Leah Kleschna"), H. Chapman Ford (as "Johann"), Etienne Girardot (as "Valentine Favre"), William B. Mack (as "Schram"), Mary Maddern (as "Charlotte"), John Mason (as "Paul Sylvaine"), James Morley (as "Baptiste"), Cecilia Radclyffe (as "Madame Berton"), Monroe Salisbury (as "Reichmann"), Emily Stevens (as "Claire Berton"), Charles Terry (as "Anton Pfaff"), Frances Welstead (as "Sophie Chaponniere"). Produced by Minnie Maddern Fiske [credited as Mrs. Fiske], Harrison Grey Fiske and Manhattan Company. NOTE: Filmed as The Girl Who Came Back (1918), The Moral Sinner (1924).
- (1905) Stage: Wrote "Leah Kleschna", produced on Broadway. Drama [return engagement]. Directed by Harrison Grey Fiske. Manhattan Theatre: 25 Sep 1905-Oct 1905 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Unknown. Produced by Minnie Maddern Fiske [credited as Mrs. Fiske], Harrison Grey Fiske and Manhattan Company.
- (1906) Stage: Co-wrote (as "Hugh Morton") lyrics for songs in "The Social Whirl", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by / Musical Director: Gustav Kerker. Book by Charles Doty and Joseph Herbert. Lyrics by Joseph Herbert. Featuring songs by Anne Caldwell, George A Spink, Charles J. Ross and E. Ray Goetz. Featuring songs with lyrics co-written by George Spink, James O'Dea, Charles J. Ross and E. Ray Goetz. Directed by R.H. Burnside and Caroline F. Siedle. Casino Theatre: 9 Apr 1906-15 Sep 1906 (195 performances). Cast: Frances Alexander (as "Chorus"), Madge Allen (as "Chorus"), Marie Arnold (as "Chorus"), E.H. Barlab (as "Chorus"), Frederick Bond (as "James Ellingham"), Elizabeth Brice (as "Babette"), Estelle Christy (as "Chorus"), Alice Clifford (as "Chorus"), Margaret Cobb (as "Chorus"), Eugenie Cole (as "Chorus"), Joseph Coyne (as "Artie Endicott"), Edward Craven (as "Court Clerk" / "Policeman"), Willard Curtiss (as "Jack Ellingham"), Mr. Deahy (as "Chorus"), Katherine Deay (as "Chorus"), Blanche Deyo (as "Germaine Du Monde"), Irma Dickson (as "Chorus"), Louise Elton (as "Chorus"), Mabel Fenton (as "Mrs. James Ellingham"), Bessie Friganza (as "Chorus"), J. Rider Glynn (as "Wagstaffe" / "Chorus"), Carolyn Green (as "Chorus"), Charles Halton (as "Lem Hicks" / "Jacob Enderman"), Marie Hammett (as "Chorus"), Mart E. Heisey (as "Sandy Graham"), Irene Hobson (as "Chorus"), Claudia Hubbard (as "Chorus"), Katherine Hunton (as "Chorus"), Violet Jewell (as "Chorus"), Mr. Kramer (as "Chorus"), Adah Lewis (as "Kittie La Verne"), Caroline Locke (as "Mrs. Hoover Thorpe"), Belle Lorimer (as "Chorus"), Eleanor Lund (as "Chorus"), M. Lutz (as "Chorus"), Paula Marr (as "Chorus"), Edna Mayo (as "Chorus"), Sadie Melles (as "Chorus"), Pauline Neff (as "Chorus"), Almeda Potter (as "Chorus"), Maude Raymond (as "Beezy"), Adele Ritchie (as "Violet Dare"), Mattie Rivenberg (as "Chorus"), Charles J. Ross (as "Julian Endicott"), Della Spray (as "Chorus"), Grace Studdiford (as "Chorus"), Sybilla Thorne (as "Chorus"), Grace Wallis (as "Chorus"), Madge Wallis (as "Chorus"), Beatrice Walsh (as "Chorus"), Lillian Ward (as "Chorus"), M. Wheeler (as "Chorus"), Ethel Wheeler (as "Chorus"), Henry Williams (as "Stable Boy"), Evelyn Wood (as "Chorus"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1907) Stage: Wrote "The Shirkers", produced on Broadway [repertory production]. NOTE: This production rotated in conjunction with a number of other plays, including "Washington's First Defeat" and "The Spy of the Government" that appeared on Broadway (actual venue unknown) from mid-October 1907 into early December 1907.
- (1911) Stage: Wrote book / lyrics for "Marriage a la Carte", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by Ivan Caryll. Musical Director: J. Sebastian Hiller and Carl H. Engel. Casino Theatre: 2 Jan 1911-25 Feb 1911 (64 performances). Cast: Marie Ashton (as "Euryanthe Bowers"), Ida Barnard (as "Primrose Farmilow"), Esther Bissett (as "Sheila Wragge"), Norman A. Blume (as "Jimmy Wragge"), Charles Brown (as "Cuthbert Coddington"), Cyril Chadwick (as "Ponsonby de Coutts Wragge"), Harry Conor (as "Napoleon Pettingill"), Maria Davis (as "Mrs. Ponsonby de Coutts Wragge"), Joe Doner (as "Thomas Bolingbroke Mullens"), A.W. Fleming (as "Mr. Pink"), Jack Hagner (as "Young Micklethorpe"), Rosina Henley (as "Molly"), Jack F. Henry (as "Eustace Haws"), C. Morton Horne (as "The Hon. Richard Mirables"), Harry Kelly (as "Footman"), Diane Otse (as "Elsie Tattleby"), Frances Reeve (as "Iseult Punchum"), Elsa Ryan (as "Daisy Dimsy"), Quentin Todd (as "Aubrey Hipps"), J.R. Torrens (as "Gerald Gifford"), Harold Vizard (as "Lord Mirables"), Emmy Wehlen (as "Rosalie"). Produced by Liebler & Co.
- (1911) Stage: Wrote "Judith Zaraine", produced on Broadway. Drama. Astor Theatre: 16 Jan 1911-Jan 1911 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Lena Ashwell (as "Judith Zaraine"), Walter Cluxton, Emmett Corrigan, Charles Dowd, Donald Gallaher, Gordon Johnstone, John E. Kellerd, Edward Langford, Charles Waldron. Produced by Liebler & Co.
- (1911) Stage: Wrote "The Pink Lady", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy.
- (1912) Stage: Wrote "The Pink Lady", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy (revival).
- (1912) Stage: Wrote Oh! Oh! Delphine", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy.
- (1913) Stage: Wrote "The Fountain" (played in repertory with "The Eternal Mystery", "The Black Mask", "The Bride", "En Deshabille," "Russia", "Felice", "The Kiss in the Dark", "It Can Be Done", "Phipps", "Fear"). Princess Theatre: 27 Sep 1913-unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Unknown. Produced by The Princess Players.
- (1913) Stage: Wrote "The Little Cafe", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy.
- (1915) Stage: Wrote book / lyrics for "Around the Map", produced on Broadway. Musical revue. Music by Herman Finck. Additional music by Louis A. Hirsch. Musical Director: Charles Previn. Choreographed by Julian Mitchell. Directed by Herbert Gresham. New Amsterdam Theatre: 1 Nov 1915-29 Jan 1916 (104 performances). Produced by Klaw & Erlanger. NOTE: This was Mr. McLellan's final Broadway credit in his lifetime; he would die in Esher, England, on 22 Sep 1916, at age 51.
- (1921) Stage: Wrote (w/Edgar Smith) source material (as "Hugh Morton") for "The Whirl of New York", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy (revival). Music by Gustav Kerker, Al Goodman and Lew Pollack. Musical Staging by Allan K. Foster. Directed by Lew Morton. Winter Garden Theatre: 13 Jun 1921-7 Sep 1921 (124 performances). Cast: Mary Adelaide, Miriam Batista, Anna Berry, Julia Berry, Dorothy Bruce, Ethel Bryant, Anna Buckley, Henry Chew, Olive Clark, J. Colligan, Pauline Dakla, Charles Dale, Mae Dealy, Florence Elmore, Georgia Empey, Helen Fox, Nancy Gibbs, Shaun Glenville, Rosie Green, Grace Hamilton, Claire Hooper, Nellie Hor, Ruby Howard, Johnny Hughes, Beatrice Jackson, Emma James, Hermosa Jose, Carl Judd, Grace Keeshon, Kitty Kelly, Joe Keno, Nina Klau, Kyra, Grace Langdon, Catherine Lee, Doris Lee, Evelyn Lee, Edward Low, Margaret Low, Louis Mann (as "Karl Von Pumpernick"), Al Martin, Belle Mazelle, Bobbie McCree, Johnny McCree, Maxa McCree, Irene McGovern, Louise L. McGovern, Lucila Mendez, Margaret Menges, Florence Moore, Poppy Morton, J. Harold Murray (as "Harry Bronson"), John T. Murray, Sidney Nelson, Gypsy Norman, Helen O'Brien, Benna Odear, Edith Pierce, Irene Pierre, Mary Preston, Frank Purcella, Raymond Purcella, Rath Brothers, Florence Rayfield, Beatrice Reiss, Elizabeth Reynolds, Edna Richmond, Virginia Richmond, Dolores Russelle, Maude Satterfield, Florence Schubert, Mariam Seeley, Joe Smith, Madeline Smith, Orilla Smith, Mildred Soper, Charlotte Sprague, Edna E. Stark, Louise Stark, Juliet Strahl, Master Junior Tiernan, Viola Vortruba, Dorothy Ward, Fay Wayne, Dorothy Wegman, Louise White, Florence Wilde, Virginia Wilson, Alice Wong, Flo Worth, Marlyn Yates. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1917) Stage: Wrote (as "Hugh Morton"; w/Benny Davis [earliest Broadway credit], Ben Shields, Harry B. Smith,Edgar Smith, Otto A. Harbach, James O'Dea, Henry Martyn Blossom, Stanley Murphy, Bob Cole [credited as Robert Cole], J. Rosamond Johnson [credited as J. Rosamond Johnson], Joseph McCarthy, Gus Van, Joe Schenck and C. Francis Reisner) additional lyrics for "Miss 1917", produced on Broadway. Musical revue. Music by Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern. Book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse. Musical Direction by Robert Hood Bowers. Additional music by Gustav Kerker, Bob Cole, George Evans, John Stromberg, Karl Hoschna, Henry I. Marshall, Harry Tierney, J. Rosamond Johnson, Joseph McCarthy, Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Edward Hutchinson and Billy Baskette. Choreographed by Adolph Bohm. Directed by Ned Wayburn. Century Theatre: 5 Nov 1917-5 Jan 1918 (72 performances). Cast: Geraldine Alexander, Diana Allen, Effie Allen, Walter Baker, Emil Barth, Louis Baum, Margie Bell, Mike Bell, Paul M. Bell, Adolph Bohm, May Borden, Polly Bowman, Kitty Boylan, James Bradley, Alma Braham, Rene Braham, Joe Brennan, Paul Briant, William Briant, Elizabeth Brice, Irene Castle, Lawrence Clark, Gladys Coburn, Cecelia Cullen, Arthur Cunningham, Peggy Dana, Marion Davies, Bessie McCoy Davis, Semone D'Herlys, Zitelka Dolores, Frank Duball, Fred DuBall, Arthur Elson, Herbert Fields [Broadway debut], Lew Fields, Pearl Franklin, Lottie Franklyn, Marie Frawley, William Fuller, Elizabeth Gardiner, Dan Gordon, Emeline Gorman, Emmet Grant, Emma Haig, Betty Hale, Marshall Hall, Pauline Hall, Betty Hamilton, Minnie Harrison, Flo Hart, Irene Hayes, Ruth Heil, Hilda Hirsch, Leonard Howard, May Irving, Leavitt James, Agnes Jepson, Amelia Johnson, Charles Jones, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nicholas Kane, Harry Kelly, Charles King, Myrtle King, Raymond Klages, Dorothy Klewer, Joe Knoffer, Leonore Kohler, Cecil Lean, Margit Leeraas, Rita Leeraas, Lois Leigh, Frank Leonard, May Leslie, Gladys Loftus, Jack Lynch, Cecile Markle, Albertine Marlowe, James Marr, Evangeline Marshalck, Mauresette, Vera Maxwell, Cleo Mayfield, Addison Mead, Helen Mooney, Margaret Morris, Vivian Morrison, Elizabeth Morton, Rosella Myers, Alla Nova, Stephen O'Rourke, Olive Osborne, John Parks, Ann Pennington [Broadway debut], Kathryn Perry, Tot Qualters, James Quinn, Flora Revalles, Eugene Revere, Charles Root, Dolores Rose, Ethel Rough, Bert Savoy, Joe Schenck, Vivienne Segal, Miss Selskaya, Frank Sharp, William Shelley, Mildred Shelly, Yvonne Shelton, Juana Sheppard, Joseph Sparks, Irene Spencer, Murray Starr, Natasha Stephanova, Miss Sterling, Gus Stevenson, Anna Stone, Ivan Tarasov, Lilyan Tashman, Andrew Tombes, Ira Uhr, Alexander Umanski, Tortola Valencia, Gus Van, Miss Vernon, Winnie Ward, Edith Warren, John Warren, George White, Mark White, Ruby Wilbur, Mack Williams, Martha Wood, Rita Zalmani. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
- (1920) Stage: Co-wrote additional lyrics for "The Night Boat", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by Jerome Kern. Book and Lyrics by Anne Caldwell. Based on a farce by Alexandre Bisson. Musical Director: Victor Baravalle. Music orchestrated by Frank Sadler. Additional lyrics co-written by Frank Craven, Bob Cole, William Jerome, Bert Hanlon, Benny Ryan, George M. Cohan and Paul Dresser. Additional music by George M. Cohan, Paul Dresser, Harry Tierney, James Monaco, J. Rosamond Johnson and Ivan Caryll. Costume Design by O'Kane Conwell. Musical Staging by Ned Wayburn. Directed by Fred G. Latham. Liberty Theatre: 2 Feb 1920-30 Oct 1920 (313 performances). Cast: Geraldine Alexander, Agnes Allen, Phoebe Appleton, Marie Benedict, Angel Cansino (as "Dance Specialty"), Eduardo Cansino (as "Dance Specialty"), Janet Carleton, Irving Carpenter, Marie Cavanagh, Arline Chase, Cecile Conway, Evelyn Conway, Lillian Kemble-Cooper (as "Dora de Costa"), Peggy Craven, Lola Curtis, Daisy Daniels, Isabel Falconer, Mrs. John Findlay, Gene Fleming, Babz Fowler, Helen Gates, Louise Groody, Betty Hope Hale, John E. Hazzard, Stella Hoban, Dorothy Hollis, Beatrice Hughes, Jack Hughes, Gordon Kyle, Lois Leigh, Mar LeRoy, Paul Lester, Adah Baker Lewis (as "Mrs. Maxim"), Jeanette MacDonald (as "Ensemble"), Raymond Moore, Ralph O'Brien, Evelyn Plumador, Marie Reagen, Frank Rowan, John Scannell, Lydia Scott, Mildred Sinclair, Hal Skelly, Daniel Sparks, Ernest Torrence, Kay Tudor, Bunny Wendell, Hansford Wilson, Irene Wilson. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1924) Stage: Wrote "Leah Kleschna", produced on Broadway. Drama (revival). Lyric Theatre: 21 Apr 1924-May 1924 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Katharine Alexander (as "Sophie Chaponniere"), Edith Barker, Ulric Collins, Hal Crane, Arnold Daly (as "Kleschna"), Henry Davies, William Faversham, Helen Gahagan (as "Leah Kleschna"), Mary Hone, Arnold Korff (as "Gen. Berton"), José Ruben (as "Schram"), Lowell Sherman (as "Raoul Berton"). Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1942) Stage: Wrote (w/Gustav Kerker) "The Belle of New York," performed in a Rodney Ackland production at the London Coliseum in London, England. Musical. Cast: Evelyn Laye, Billy Tasker, Billy Danvers and Enid Stamp Taylor.
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