Jerry

About the show

Jerry is a 1914 American play by Catherine Chisholm Cushing, written as a star vehicle for Billie Burke. It premiered on Broadway March 28, 1914 at the Lyceum Theatre, and the first time she played an American character onstage. They suggested that the play as first written by Cushman may have originally centered on the character of Joan Doubleday, and been rewritten to be more of a star vehicle for Burke, making it less of a comedy and more of a farce.