| Seven Keys to Baldpate | |
|---|---|
| Written by | George M. Cohan |
| Date premiered | 22 September 1913 |
| Place premiered | Astor Theatre, New York |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | comedy mystery |
| Setting | Office of Baldpate Inn. |
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Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled some audiences and critics but became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival. Cohan adapted it as a film in 1917, and it was adapted for film six more times, and later for TV and radio. The play "mixes all the formulaic melodrama of the era with a satirical [farcical] send-up of just those melodramatic stereotypes."[1]
- ^ Warburton, Eileen. "Keeper of the Keys to Old Broadway: George M. Cohan's Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913)", 2nd Story Theatre, January 32, 2014, accessed October 14, 2014. See also "Play Reviews for Seven Keys to Baldpate", 2nd Story Theatre, accessed October 14, 2014