The Hotel Mouse

About the show

The Hotel Mouse is a musical comedy with music by Armand Vecsey and Ivan Caryll, lyrics by Clifford Grey, and book by Guy Bolton, with additional music by Bert Hanlon, and additional lyrics by Alfred Bryan. The book is based on the French comedy Le souris d'hôtel by Marcel Gerbidon and Paul Armont and concerns a female cat burglar in Monte Carlo given the nickname "the hotel mouse" by the local police; one of her marks falls in love with her. It was produced in 1922 on Broadway by the Shubert brothers, followed by a tour.