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Cape Smoke
Broadway
Original
Cape Smoke
Broadway
Original
Martin Beck Theatre
302 W. 45th St., New York, NY
SYNOPSIS:
playwright:
Walter Archer Frost
People (19)
Francis Corbie
Witch Doctor
(Original)
Frazer Coulter
Doctor Hammerstone
(Original)
Alice Dunn
Ann Netherby
(Original)
Donald Lashley
Umtata
(Original)
Chandler Myers
Bank Messenger
(Original)
Horace Pollock
Neal
(Original)
James Rennie
John Ormsby
(Original)
Georges E. Romain
Sybout Jacobus Zelig
(Original)
Nathaniel Sack
Bomba
(Original)
Louis Schooler
Kudu
(Original)
John Davenport Seymour
Gregory Bradbroke
(Original)
Ruth Shepley
Catherine Bradbroke
(Original)
Allan Waith
Sixpence
(Original)
Henry Walters
Diggy
(Original)
Percy Waram
Hugh Chadwell
(Original)
Sir Gerard Maxwell Willshire
Jim Fraser
(Original)
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Francis Corbie
Witch Doctor
(Original)
Frazer Coulter
Doctor Hammerstone
(Original)
Alice Dunn
Ann Netherby
(Original)
Donald Lashley
Umtata
(Original)
Chandler Myers
Bank Messenger
(Original)
Horace Pollock
Neal
(Original)
James Rennie
John Ormsby
(Original)
Georges E. Romain
Sybout Jacobus Zelig
(Original)
Nathaniel Sack
Bomba
(Original)
Louis Schooler
Kudu
(Original)
John Davenport Seymour
Gregory Bradbroke
(Original)
Ruth Shepley
Catherine Bradbroke
(Original)
Allan Waith
Sixpence
(Original)
Henry Walters
Diggy
(Original)
Percy Waram
Hugh Chadwell
(Original)
Sir Gerard Maxwell Willshire
Jim Fraser
(Original)
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Walter Archer Frost
Writer
A. E. Anson
Staging
Charles K. Gordon
Producer
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Pro Info
Opening Date
Feb
16
1925
Closing Date
May
1
1925
Performances
104
as of Jan 30, 2026
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