# Led Astray

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{{Short description|Play by Dion Boucicault}}
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'''''Led Astray''''' is an 1873 [melodrama](/source/melodrama)tic [play](/source/Play_(theatre)) written by [Irish](/source/Irish_people) [playwright](/source/playwright) [Dion Boucicault](/source/Dion_Boucicault).   It was first performed at the [Union Square Theatre](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)''</ref>  It debuted in London at the [Gaiety Theatre](/source/Gaiety_Theatre%2C_London) in July 1874.

The play featured [Rose Eytinge](/source/Rose_Eytinge), Charles R. Thorne Jr., Elizabeth Weathersby, and [McKee Rankin](/source/McKee_Rankin).<ref name="bordman"/>

The play is loosely based on ''La Tentation'' (1860) by French playwright [Octave Feuillet](/source/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](/source/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](/source/McKee_Rankin)
* Hector Placide by [Stuart Robson](/source/Stuart_Robson_(actor))
* O'Hara by H.W. Montgomery
* Baroness by Emily Mestayer
* Dowager by Marie Wilkins
* Mathilde by [Kate Claxton](/source/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==
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==External links==
* {{IBDB show|10620|Led Astray}}

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Led Astray

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