Are You There?

This article is about the play. For the 1931 film, see Are You There? (film). For the 1997 song, see Are You There? (Josh Wink song).
Are You There?
Opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Shirley Kellogg, the star of the "farcical musical play in two acts"
Librettist
  • Albert de Courville
  • Edgar Wallace
LanguageEnglish
Premiere
1 November 1913 (1913-11-01)
The Prince of Wales Theatre, London

Are You There? is a "farcical musical play in two acts" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo (with interpolations by Lewis F. Muir) with a book by Albert de Courville and lyrics by Edgar Wallace. Also described as an "operette" by Variety, it premièred unsuccessfully on 1 November 1913 at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London to a rowdy audience which almost became a riot.[1][2][3] Its star, Shirley Kellogg, was Courville's wife.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference riot was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ Variety (7 November 1913). "$60,000 London Production Pronounced 'Awful Failure'", p. 3