After the Ball is a musical by Noël Coward based on the 1892 play by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan.
Mrs Erlynne and the company
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London.
After the Ball (musical)
…After the Ball is a musical by Noël Coward based on the 1892 play by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan. After a provincial tour, the musical premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, on 10 June 1954 and ran for 188 performances until 20 November 1954…
1892 premiere: left to right, Ben Webster (Cecil Graham), Nutcombe Gould (Lord Darlington), Adolphus Vane-Tempest (Charles Dumby), H. H. Vincent (Lord Augustus Lorton) and George Alexander (Lord Windermere)
Clockwise from top left: Wilde, Marion Terry, Nutcombe Gould, H. H. Vincent, Lily Hanbury and Ben Webster
Winifred Emery as Lady Windermere, 1892
Playbill from the Theatre Royal, Exeter, advertising a performance of Lady Windermere's Fan on 2 April 1894.