The Casino Girl

About the show

Act I – A Street in Cairo Act II – The Pasha's Palace Laura Lee, a former chorus girl from the Casino Theatre in New York, attempts to escape the amorous advances of Percy, an English earl, by going to Cairo in Egypt where she sets herself up as Mdlle. Estelle, a French milliner. Percy arrives in Egypt in pursuit of her. Laura Lee endures complications involving a comic Pasha and some clownish thieves before she realises that she loves Percy in return, and the two are united. After a rewrite for the London production, the Khedive became the Pasha, and Percy became a New York doctor.