ABSTRACT
While The School Girl was running successfully in London, Florodora followed its Paris production with a German version at the Stadttheater, Leipzig, on November 21, 1903. The review in the Illustrirte Zeitung suggested that the audience was pleased, even if the critics were somewhat sniffy: The new English dance-operetta Florodora by Leslie Stuart achieved strong outward success at the Old Theater in Leipzig. Most suitable for variety stages, the piece is on the whole reminiscent of the style and manner of the Sidney Jones operetta The Geisha, and contains many tiresome comic exaggerations and repetitions but not much humor and wit. That same month saw the third and fourth anniversaries, respectively, of Florodora's New York and London productions. In America, being a Florodora girl had such distinction that those who achieved it held a reunion to mark the occasion.
