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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the film adaptations, see <a href="Chu-Chin-Chow_(1923_film)" title="Chu-Chin-Chow (1923 film)">Chu-Chin-Chow (1923 film)</a> and <a href="Chu_Chin_Chow_(1934_film)" title="Chu Chin Chow (1934 film)">Chu Chin Chow (1934 film)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><i><span class="summary">Chu Chin Chow</span></i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="Oscar_Asche" title="Oscar Asche">Oscar Asche</a> in <i>Chu Chin Chow</i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Music</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Frederic_Norton" title="Frederic Norton">Frederic Norton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Book_(musical_theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Book (musical theatre)">Book</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Oscar_Asche" title="Oscar Asche">Oscar Asche</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Basis</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="Ali_Baba" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Baba">Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Productions</th><td class="infobox-data">1916 <a href="West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> <br> 1917 <a href="Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> <br> 1940/1941 <a href="West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> <a href="Revival_(theatre)" title="Revival (theatre)">revival</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><i><b>Chu Chin Chow</b></i> is a <a href="Musical_theatre" title="Musical theatre">musical comedy</a> written, produced and directed by <a href="Oscar_Asche" title="Oscar Asche">Oscar Asche</a>, with music by <a href="Frederic_Norton" title="Frederic Norton">Frederic Norton</a>, based (with minor embellishments) on the story of <i><a href="Ali_Baba" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Baba">Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ganzl_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganzl-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The piece premièred at <a href="Her_Majesty's_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Theatre">His Majesty's Theatre</a> in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), a record that stood for nearly forty years until <i><a href="Salad_Days_(musical)" title="Salad Days (musical)">Salad Days</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The show's first American production in New York, with additional lyrics by <a href="Arthur_Anderson_(dramatist)" title="Arthur Anderson (dramatist)">Arthur Anderson</a>, played for 208 performances in 1917–1918, starring <a href="Tyrone_Power_Sr." title="Tyrone Power Sr.">Tyrone Power</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1934film_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1934film-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It subsequently had successful seasons elsewhere in America and Australia, including in 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-Ganzl_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganzl-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><a href="Chu-Chin-Chow_(1923_film)" title="Chu-Chin-Chow (1923 film)">A silent film of the musical</a>, starring <a href="Betty_Blythe" title="Betty Blythe">Betty Blythe</a>, was produced in 1923 using some of the music.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Chu_Chin_Chow_(1934_film)" title="Chu Chin Chow (1934 film)">A talking film</a>, with the score intact, was made by the <a href="Gainsborough_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Gainsborough Studios">Gainsborough Studios</a> in 1934, with <a href="George_Robey" title="George Robey">George Robey</a> as <a href="Ali_Baba" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Baba">Ali Baba</a>, <a href="Fritz_Kortner" title="Fritz Kortner">Fritz Kortner</a> as Abu Hasan, <a href="Anna_May_Wong" title="Anna May Wong">Anna May Wong</a> as Zahrat Al-Kulub, <a href="Frank_Cochrane" title="Frank Cochrane">Frank Cochrane</a> reprising his stage role of the cobbler, and <a href="Laurence_Hanray" title="Laurence Hanray">Laurence Hanray</a> as Kasim.<sup id="cite_ref-1934film_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1934film-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The show toured the British provinces for many years. It returned to London in 1940 for 80 performances, when it was interrupted by the <a href="The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">London bombing</a> but then returned in 1941 for another 158 nights. In 1953, an ice version was produced at the <a href="Empire_Pool_(Wembley)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire Pool (Wembley)">Empire Pool</a> in <a href="Wembley" title="Wembley">Wembley</a>, London, starring <a href="Tyrone_Power" title="Tyrone Power">Tyrone Power</a>, which also toured the provinces and abroad.<sup id="cite_ref-Ganzl_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganzl-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Occasional productions are still mounted, including one in July 2008 by the <a href="Finborough_Theatre" title="Finborough Theatre">Finborough Theatre</a> in London, England.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>

<p>The success of the "<a href="The_Book_of_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" class="mw-redirect" title="The Book of One Thousand and One Nights">Arabian Nights</a>" adaptation <i><a href="Kismet_(play)" title="Kismet (play)">Kismet</a></i>, a 1911 play by <a href="Edward_Knoblock" title="Edward Knoblock">Edward Knoblock</a>, inspired <a href="Oscar_Asche" title="Oscar Asche">Oscar Asche</a> to write and produce <i>Chu Chin Chow</i>. Asche directed the musical and played the lead role of Abu Hasan, leader of the forty thieves (the "Chu Chin Chow" of the title refers to the robber chief when impersonating one of his victims). Besides Asche, the production starred his wife, <a href="Lily_Brayton" title="Lily Brayton">Lily Brayton</a>, and the former <a href="D'Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company" title="D'Oyly Carte Opera Company">D'Oyly Carte Opera Company</a> star <a href="Courtice_Pounds" title="Courtice Pounds">Courtice Pounds</a>. Costumes were by the designer <a href="Percy_Anderson_(designer)" title="Percy Anderson (designer)">Percy Anderson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><i>Chu Chin Chow</i> was described as a combination of musical comedy and <a href="Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomime</a>. It was a big budget spectacular costing £5,300, with over a dozen scene changes, fantastic sets, big dance routines, exotic costumes and Asche's innovative lighting designs. The design for the show was influenced by the English taste for all things connected with Asia (known as "<a href="Orientalism" title="Orientalism">orientalism</a>") which had originated with <a href="Diaghilev" class="mw-redirect" title="Diaghilev">Diaghilev</a>'s production of the ballet <i><a href="Scheherazade_(Rimsky-Korsakov)#Adaptations" title="Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)">Scheherazade</a></i>. Theatre journal <i><a href="The_Era_(newspaper)" title="The Era (newspaper)">The Era</a></i> said that Norton's music had "a touch of the East but for the most part it was on a level with the tender melody of musical comedy" and "hardly inspired". Nevertheless, many of the songs became hits, and "The Cobbler's Song" and "Any Time's Kissing Time" in particular entered the repertoire of ballad singers for at least three or four decades.

</p><p>Tickets to see <i>Chu Chin Chow</i> were particularly eagerly sought by troops on leave from the <a href="Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>. One of the attractions for the on-leave soldiers was the chorus of pretty slave girls who, for the period, were very scantily dressed. Complaints, not by the soldiers, resulted in the <a href="Lord_Chamberlain" title="Lord Chamberlain">Lord Chamberlain</a> (the British theatre censor) viewing the show and requiring "this naughtiness" to be stopped—at least for a while. The cast was large and included a camel, a donkey, poultry and snakes. 2.8 million tickets to the show were issued. The year following the premiere of the musical, a souvenir booklet was prepared, which included a novelized version of the play by Willam A. Page. He included additional background explanations to explain the scenery and physical attributes of the characters.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><i>Chu Chin Chow</i> was one of three hit musical shows premiered on the London musical stage during <a href="World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> (the others being <i><a href="The_Bing_Boys_Are_Here" title="The Bing Boys Are Here">The Bing Boys Are Here</a></i> and <i><a href="The_Maid_of_the_Mountains" title="The Maid of the Mountains">The Maid of the Mountains</a></i>), and music or scenes from these have been included as background in many films set in this period.<sup id="cite_ref-Centennary_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Centennary-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other popular musicals of the period were <i><a href="Theodore_%26_Co" title="Theodore & Co">Theodore & Co</a></i> (1916), <i><a href="The_Happy_Day" title="The Happy Day">The Happy Day</a></i> (1916), <i><a href="The_Boy_(musical)" title="The Boy (musical)">The Boy</a></i> (1917) and <i><a href="Yes%2C_Uncle!" title="Yes, Uncle!">Yes, Uncle!</a> (1917)</i>. Audiences wanted light and uplifting entertainment during the war, and all these shows delivered it.<sup id="cite_ref-Centennary_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Centennary-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2></div>

<p><b>Setting:</b> Baghdad, Palace of Kasim Baba<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The wealthy merchant Kasim Baba (brother of Ali Baba) is preparing to give a lavish banquet at his home for a wealthy Chinese merchant, Chu Chin Chow, who is on his way from China. The robber chieftain, Abu Hasan, wishes to add to his riches the property of Kasim. Abu Hasan forces his captive, the beautiful Zahrat al-Kulub, to spy for him in Kasim's house, disguised as a slave girl, by holding her lover hostage. She is nearly found out several times. Zahrat sends a message to Abu Hasan, letting him know about the banquet. Hasan arrives at Kasim's palace in disguise as Chu Chin Chow, whom his gang has robbed and murdered. He tries to glean information that will enable him to rob his host.

</p><p>Meanwhile, the slaves tell Ali Baba, Kasim's poor, lazy brother, about Hasan's secret cave and the password "open sesame". Ali Baba enters the lair and helps himself to some of the thieves' treasure. The greedy Kasim persuades his brother to tell him where his sudden wealth came from and slips out to see what he can find at Hasan's cave. Kasim finds the treasure but is captured by Abu Hasan and put to death. Hasan and his forty thieves plan an attack on Baba household on the occasion of the wedding of Ali Baba's son Nur al-Huda Ali and the slave girl Marjanah.

</p><p>Finally, on the eve of the attack, Zahrat gets her revenge by disposing of Hasan's men using boiling oil, stabbing Abu Hasan to death, and generally saving the day. Zahrat and her lover are reunited, Ali Baba gets Kasim's widow, Alcolom, and all ends happily.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_cast">Original cast</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roles">Roles</h2></div>

<th>Role

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<th>Premiere cast,<br>3 August 1916

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<th>Original Broadway cast,<br>22 October 1917

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<td>Abu Hasan

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<td><a href="Oscar_Asche" title="Oscar Asche">Oscar Asche</a>

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<td><a href="Tyrone_Power_Sr." title="Tyrone Power Sr.">Tyrone Power Sr.</a>

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<td>Kasim Baba/Cobbler

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<td><a href="Frank_Cochrane" title="Frank Cochrane">Frank Cochrane</a>

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<td><a href="Albert_Howson" title="Albert Howson">Albert Howson</a>

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<td>Ali Baba

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<td><a href="Courtice_Pounds" title="Courtice Pounds">Courtice Pounds</a>

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<td><a href="Henry_Dixey" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Dixey">Henry Dixey</a>

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<td>Nur al-Huda Ali

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<td>J. V. Bryant

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<td><a href="George_Rasely" title="George Rasely">George Rasely</a>

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<td>Abdullah

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<td>Norman Williams

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<td>Francis J. Boyle

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<td>Marjanah

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<td>Violet Essex

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<td><a href="Tessa_Kosta" title="Tessa Kosta">Tessa Kosta</a>

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<td>Zahrat al-Kulub

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<td><a href="Lily_Brayton" title="Lily Brayton">Lily Brayton</a>

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<td><a href="Florence_Reed" title="Florence Reed">Florence Reed</a>

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<td>Alcolom

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<td>Aileen D'Orme<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<td><a href="Kate_Condon" title="Kate Condon">Kate Condon</a>

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<td>Mahbubah

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<td><a href="Sydney_Fairbrother" title="Sydney Fairbrother">Sydney Fairbrother</a>

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<td><a href="Lucy_Beaumont_(actress)" title="Lucy Beaumont (actress)">Lucy Beaumont</a>

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<p>All with words by Oscar Asche and music by Frederic Norton unless otherwise indicated.

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<ul><li>Here Be Oysters Stewed in Honey (Abdullah and Chorus)</li>

<li>I am Chu Chin Chow (Abu Hasan and Chorus)</li>

<li>Cleopatra's Nile (Marjanah and Chorus)</li>

<li>I'll Sing and Dance (Ali Baba and Company)</li>

<li>Corraline (Nur-al-Huda and Marjanah)</li>

<li>When a Pullet Is Plump (Ali Baba)</li>

<li>We Are the Robbers of the Woods (Robber's Chorus)</li>

<li>All My Days Till End of Life (Marjanah and Ali Baba)</li>

<li>Temperamental Am I (Ali Baba, Marjanah and Nur)</li>

<li>Behold (Abdullah)</li>

<li>Desert Song (Zahrat and Chorus) – words and music by Frederic Norton.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<ul><li>I Long for the Sun (Alcolom and Chorus) – music by Grace Torrens</li>

<li>Mahbubah (Ali, Kassim, Marjanah, Nur and Alcolom)</li>

<li>I Built a Fairy Palace (Mahbubah)</li>

<li>The Song of the Scimitar (Abu Hasan and Chorus)</li>

<li>Any Time's Kissing Time (Alcolom)</li>

<li>The Cobbler's Song (Baba Mustafa)</li>

<li>We Bring Ye Fruits (Fruit Girls)</li>

<li>From Cairo, Baghdad, Khorasan (Otbah)</li>

<li>How Dear Is Our Day (Alcolom and Ali Baba)</li>

<li>Olive Oil (Abdullah and Chorus)</li>

<li>Wedding Procession (Ensemble)</li></ul>

<dl><dt>Additional Songs added during the original run</dt></dl>

<ul><li>At Siesta Time (Marjanah and Chorus) – words by Arthur Anderson, music by Grace Torrens</li>

<li>Naughty Knave (Ali Baba) – words by Oscar Asche, music by Grace Torrens (1917)</li></ul>

<dl><dt>Additional Songs added in the 1940 revival</dt></dl>

<ul><li>I Shiver and Shake with Fear (Ali Baba, Marjanah and Nur-Al-Huda)</li>

<li>Beans, Beans, Beans (Mabudah)</li>

<li>If I Liken Thy Shape (Marjanah and Nur-al-Huda)</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production_history">Production history</h2></div>

<p>Major productions included the following:<sup id="cite_ref-Ganzl_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganzl-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li>His Majesty's Theatre 1916–1921 (2,238 performances)</li>

<li>Broadway 1917–1918 (208 performances)</li>

<li>Australia 1920–1921</li>

<li>Regent Theatre, London 1928–1929<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>London revival, 1940–1941 (238 performances)</li>

<li>1953 London and New York ice rink productions</li>

<li>The <a href="Finborough_Theatre" title="Finborough Theatre">Finborough Theatre</a> in London performed a semi-staged, score-in-hand production of <i>Chu Chin Chow</i> in July 2008, starring <a href="Alan_Cox_(actor)" title="Alan Cox (actor)">Alan Cox</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recordings">Recordings</h2></div>

<ul><li>Label: Broadcast Twelve UK 5039. Issued 1929 10" 'Selection From "Chu Chin Chow" (Parts I & 2)'</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2></div>

<p>In the novel <i><a href="Auntie_Mame" title="Auntie Mame">Auntie Mame</a></i> (and the play and film versions), the lead character, Mame Dennis, mentions several times that she adored her time as a chorus girl in <i>Chu Chin Chow</i> with her bosom buddy Vera Charles and tries to recreate the experience.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name of American comic book character <a href="Fin_Fang_Foom" title="Fin Fang Foom">Fin Fang Foom</a> was inspired by the title of <i>Chu Chin Chow</i>, according to creator <a href="Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a>, who had seen the 1934 film version as a boy.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div>

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<li id="cite_note-Ganzl-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ganzl_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ganzl_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ganzl_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ganzl_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Kurt_G%C3%A4nzl" title="Kurt Gänzl">Gänzl, Kurt</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://operetta-research-center.org/chu-chin-chow-musical-tale-east-3-acts-music-frederic-norton">"<i>Chu Chin Chow</i> Musical Tale of the East In 3 Acts, Music by Frederic Norton"</a>, Operetta Research Center, 9 July 2016</span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.world-theatres.com/longruns.html#longruns.london.html">Compilation of longest-running plays in history</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100402061014/http://world-theatres.com/longruns.html">Archived</a> 2010-04-02 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although <i>Salad Days</i> was the first musical to break the <i>Chu Chin Chow</i> record, the first play to break its record was <i><a href="Abie's_Irish_Rose" title="Abie's Irish Rose">Abie's Irish Rose</a></i> in 1927 on Broadway. See: "Abroad", <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Manchester Guardian</a></i>, June 2, 1927, p. 15</span>

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<li id="cite_note-1934film-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-1934film_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-1934film_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=980DE6DB103CE23ABC4A51DFBF66838F629EDE&oref=slogin">"Chu Chin Chow (1934): A Robust Operetta"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>, 22 September 1934, accessed 2 August 2010</span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilcox, Herbert Sydney. <i>Twenty-five Thousand Sunsets: The Autobiography of Herbert Wilcox</i>, The Bodley Head: London (1967), p. 54</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/archive/2008/chuchinchow.htm"><i>Chu Chin Chow</i> (2008)</a> at the Finborough Theatre, London, website archive, accessed 23 December 2010</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/bjsimmons/musicals/index.html#1">"A Tonic to the Imagination" (Anderson's costume designs on display at the Harry Ransom Center collection)</a>, The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 26 May 2012</span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Trutt, David (ed). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haddon-hall.com/Libretti/ChuChinChowNovelized.pdf">Introduction to "Chu Chin Chow" novelization</a>, p. 3, 2010, accessed 18 November 2010</span>

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<li id="cite_note-Centennary-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Centennary_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Centennary_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sharp, Everett. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/material/thats-entertainment-showbusiness-and-the-great-war">"That’s Entertainment: Showbusiness and the Great War"</a>, World War One Centenary, University of Oxford, accessed 27 December 2021</span>

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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Richard_Traubner" title="Richard Traubner">Traubner, Richard</a>. <i>Operetta: a theatrical history</i>, 2nd edition, London: Routledge, (2003) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

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</style><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-415-96641-8</bdi></span>

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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFWilliam_A._Everett2018" class="citation book cs1">William A. Everett (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TO94DwAAQBAJ&dq=Chu+Chin+Chow+setting&pg=PT809">"The Great War, Propaganda, and Orientalist Music Theatre: The Twin Histories of Katinka and Chu Chin Chow"</a>. In Lorraine Byrne Bodley (ed.). <i>Music Preferred: Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in Honour of Harry White</i>. Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9783990124031</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Kurt_G%C3%A4nzl" title="Kurt Gänzl">Gänzl, Kurt</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kurtofgerolstein.blogspot.com/2020/08/cartesians-little-soprano-who-remade.html?fbclid=IwAR2kouap5m-Ecja5D0EMXiAsXunzsZNMrVAtvWy4gVC9XVqKh8BljE3Rw7s">"Cartesians: the little soprano who remade herself... into a star!"</a>, Kurt of Gerolstein, 1 August 2020</span>

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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Published separately as "My Desert Flower" (1916) by Keith Prowse & Co</span>

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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i>, 27 December 1928</span>

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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chuchinchow.webeden.co.uk">"Chu Chin Chow at The Finborough"</a>, 2008</span>

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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See, e.g., Lawrence, Jerome and Robert Edwin Lee, <i>Auntie Mame</i>, Act I, scene 7, p. 38, Dramatists Play Service Inc (1999) <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0822217309</bdi></span>

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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lee, Stan. "Bullpen Bulletins", "Stan's Soapbox", Marvel comics, June 2000; and Thomas, Roy and Stan Lee. "Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Interview!", <i><a href="Alter_Ego_(magazine)" title="Alter Ego (magazine)">Alter Ego</a></i>, vol. 3, issue 104, p. 21, August 2011, accessed August 20, 2012</span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

<ul><li>Colin Larkin (ed) <i>Guinness Who's Who of Stage Musicals</i> <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-85112-756-8</bdi></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/chuchinchow.htm">Synopsis and other information about <i>Chu Chin Chow</i></a> from the Guide to Musical Theatre</li>

<li>CD notes "Chu Chin Chow" Angel Records</li>

<li>record notes; "British Light Music" by Philip Sourcroft</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haddon-hall.com/Libretti/ChuChinChowAsche.html">Libretto</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2004/jul04/article6.html">Australian info</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080704171007/http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/guided_tours/musicals_tour/first_musicals/chu_chin_chow.php">Profile of <i>Chu Chin Chow</i></a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=515088">Background of show and film</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=504339&word=">Photos from <i>Chu Chin Chow</i></a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/prompt/asche.html">Information about Chu Chin Chow and Asche</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200126/http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/collections/object.php?object_id=1842">Information about Brayton and Chu Chin Chow</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stagebeauty.net/th-frames.html?http&&&www.stagebeauty.net/th-longr.html">List of longest running plays in London and New York</a></li></ul>

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