Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautiful dancing corps of "Gaiety Girls" appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions. The 1890s Gaiety Girls were respectable, elegant young ladies, unlike the actresses from London's earlier musical burlesques.[1] Later, even the stars of these musical comedies were referred to as Gaiety Girls.[2]
- ^ Article about the Gaiety Girls in Pick-Me-Up, London, 24 November 1894, p. 116 Archived 14 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 9 March 2008
- ^ Description of Gaiety Girls exhibition (National Portrait Gallery), accessed 9 March 2008