Vintage Broadway - The Gingerbread Man

Eddie Redway as The Gingerbread Man

Cast

Simon Simple -- JOSEPH WELSH
Margery Daw -- NELLIE LYNCH
Sallie Lunn -- HARRIET BURT
Machevalius Fudge -- HOMER LIND
Wondrous Wise -- W. H. MACK
The Fiery Dragon -- H. L. ZEDA
Good Fairy -- ROSS SNOW
Taffy -- LILLIAN LEON
Jack Horner -- HELEN BERTRAM
Mazie Bon-Bon -- ALMYRA FORREST
Kris Kringle -- GEO. H. PALMER
The Gingerbread Man -- EDDIE REDWAY
King Bunn -- GUS WEINBERG

Musical Numbers
ACT I
1. Opening Chorus
2. That Awful Bogey Man
3. Evil Eye
4. Mazie
5. Beautiful Land of Bon-Bon
6. Incantation
7. John Dough

ACT II
1. Opening Chorus
2. Old Rameses
3. Queen of my Dreams
4. Nursery Rhymes
5. Moon, Moon, Moon
6. Do You Believe in Santa Claus
7. Every Little Something
8. Gin-Gin-Gingerboy
9. Finale

Composer -- A. Baldwin Sloane

The Gingerbread Man

A Fanciful Fairyesque

Music by A. Baldwin Sloane
Book and Lyrics by Frederic Ranken
New York -- 1905

About the Show
After a brief out-of-town tour in late 1905 The Gingerbread Man opened on Broadway in early 1906. This perfectly edible show bore more than a passing resemblance to Babes in Toyland. Sticky-buns replaced toys, Candy Cadets replaced Wooden Soldiers, and both featured a strong Santa Claus/Christmas theme.

The Candy Cadets -- ACT II

The show featured music by A. Baldwin Sloane (1872--1926) composer of Jack and the Beanstalk, Lady Teazle, and The Mocking Bird, and received a credit for several songs in The Wizard of Oz.

While The Gingerbread Man ran on Broadway for only sixteen performances it was performed in stock as late as 1913 when it played for a week with the Bainbridge Musical Comedy Stock Co. in Minneapolis.

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New Haven - Nov 25, 1905
Cincinnati - May 7, 1906

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JOHN DOUGH

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Gingerbread Man July 1913

THE GINGERBREAD MAN in Stock, July 1913