Ice Skating in The Winsome Widow

 

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In 1912, the composer of The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, Louis F. Gottschalk, worked on his final Broadway project before his permanent household move to Los Angeles, California. That final show was A Winsome Widow, touted for its third act scene featuring the chorus ice skating on real ice, as seen in the photo above.

A Winsome Widow, directed by Wizard of Oz director Julian Mitchell, was a new musical version of the longest-running Broadway show at that point, Charles Hoyt's 1891 A Trip to Chinatown, which Mitchell had also directed.

I discuss A Winsome Widow in the context of composer Gottschalk's life and career on page 325 of my book All Wound Up: The Making of The Tik-Tok Man of Oz.

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