An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde's wickedly witty comedy about blackmail, political corruption and public and private honor.

Story:

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

: Playwright
Oscar Wilde

Broadway Premiere

Theatre: Lyceum Theatre

Opening Night: Mar 12, 1895

Total Performances: 40

Original Cast: Rhoda Cameron, David Elmer, Katherine Florence, Charles A. Goettler, Stephen Grattan, Isabel Irving, Herbert Kelcey, W. J. Le Moyne, Frank Short, Ernest Tarleton, Bessie Tyree, Mrs. Charles Walcot, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen

Producer: Daniel Frohman

Oct 1895 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Harlem Opera House

Opening Night: Oct 24, 1895

Total Performances: 3

1918 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Comedy Theatre

Opening Night: Sep 16, 1918

Total Performances: 80

Original Cast: Beatrice Beckley, Alice Augarde Butler, Constance Collier, Henry Crocker, Elizabeth Deimel, Cyril Harcourt, George Hayes, Alfred Helton, Julian L'Estrange, Merle Maddern, S. V. Phillips, Vincent Sartor, Norman Trevor, Gretchen Yates

Producer: John D. Williams

1996 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Opening Night: May 1, 1996

Total Performances: 307

Original Cast: Anna Carteret, Michael Denison, Penny Downie, Dulcie Gray, Martin Shaw, David Yelland, J. Paul Boehmer, Rufus Collins, Allison Daugherty, Edmund C. Davys, Cheryl Gaysunas, Victoria Hasted, Dominic Hawksley, Denis Holmes, Valerie Leonard, Angela Thornton