# Tommy Rot

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{{Short description|1902 musical by Safford Waters}}
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'''''Tommy Rot''''' is a [musical](/source/musical_theatre) in two acts with both music and lyrics by [Safford Waters](/source/Safford_Waters), and a book by [Rupert Hughes](/source/Rupert_Hughes), [Joseph W. Herbert](/source/Joseph_W._Herbert), [Paul West](/source/Paul_West_(playwright)), and [Kirke La Shelle](/source/Kirke_La_Shelle).<ref name="Burns">{{cite book|first1=Burns|last1=Mantle|first2=Garrison P.|last2=Sherwood|first3=John Arthur|last3=Chapman|title=The Best Plays of 1899-1909|year=1944|publisher=[Dodd, Mead & Co.](/source/Dodd%2C_Mead_%26_Co.)|chapter= Tommy Rot|page=420}}</ref> It premiered on [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre) at [Mrs. Osborn's Playhouse](/source/Mrs._Osborn's_Playhouse) on October 21, 1902. It ran for 39 performances; closing on November 22, 1902. It used sets by Joseph A. Physioc and [D. Frank Dodge](/source/D._Frank_Dodge).<ref name="Dietz"/>

''Tommy Rot'' used an [embedded narrative](/source/Story_within_a_story) device where there was a play within a play; in this case the story taking place during a production of [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)'s ''[As You Like It](/source/As_You_Like_It)''. It starred [Blanche Ring](/source/Blanche_Ring) as Innocence Demure, Grayce Scott as Phoebe Dare, Fletcher Norton as Eric Leicester, [Evelyn Florence Nesbit](/source/Evelyn_Florence_Nesbit) as Miss Always There, Charles Butler as Thomas Rottingdean and Croker Sturgis, George Herbert as Marchese Reminesca and Hot Tomale Oscar, and [Alfred Hickman](/source/Alfred_Hickman) in the roles of Hawtrey Treebohm and Lawrence Trenwithou.<ref name="Dietz">{{cite book|first1=Dan|last1=Dietz|title=The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals|publisher=[Rowman & Littlefield Publishers](/source/Rowman_%26_Littlefield_Publishers)|year=2022|isbn=9781538168943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7TdwEAAAQBAJ|chapter=Tommy Rot|page=124-126}}</ref> 

The musical's most successful number was "The Belle of Avenue A" which was performed by Blanche Ring.<ref name="Dietz"/> This song was written by Waters years earlier and was published by Howley, Haviland & Dresser in 1895.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=musicfacpub|title=A Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of Bob Cole: Materials for a Biography|first=Peter M.|last= Lefferts|year=2016|publisher=[University of Nebraska Press](/source/University_of_Nebraska_Press)}}</ref>

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==External links==
*{{IBDB show|id=8781}}

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Category:1902 musicals
Category:Broadway musicals

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