{{Short description|Play by Dion Boucicault}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''''Led Astray''''' is an 1873 melodramatic play written by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault. It was first performed at the Union Square Theatre on December 6, 1873, and ran for 161 performances.<ref name="bordman">Bordman, Gerald Martin & Thomas S. Hischak. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DiI1wIyatvUC&pg=PA380 The Oxford Companion to American Theatre], p. 380 (3d ed. 2004)</ref><ref name="nytimesreview">(8 December 1873). [https://www.nytimes.com/1873/12/08/archives/amusements-union-square-theatre-tonights-promise-the-texas.html Amusements], ''The New York Times''</ref> It debuted in London at the Gaiety Theatre in July 1874.
The play featured Rose Eytinge, Charles R. Thorne Jr., Elizabeth Weathersby, and McKee Rankin.<ref name="bordman"/>
The play is loosely based on ''La Tentation'' (1860) by French playwright Octave Feuillet.<ref name="bordman"/>
==Original Broadway cast== * Count Rudolph Chandoce by Charles R. Thorne Jr. * Baron Mount Gosline by Claude Burroughs * Armand Chandonce by Rose Eytinge * La Fontaine by W.H. Wilder * Robert by W.S. Quiqley * Suzanne by Elizabeth Weathersby * Sophie by Kate Holland * Geo. de Lasparre by McKee Rankin * Hector Placide by Stuart Robson * O'Hara by H.W. Montgomery * Baroness by Emily Mestayer * Dowager by Marie Wilkins * Mathilde by Kate Claxton<ref name="allston">[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6864656_003/page/n161/mode/2up A history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901] Vol. III, p. 151 (1903)</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IBDB show|10620|Led Astray}}
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Category:1873 plays Led Astray