Ladies' Night (play)

Ladies' Night
Advertisement for the Broadway production
Written by	Charlton Andrews, Avery Hopwood
Date premiered	August 9, 1920 (1920-08-09)
Place premiered	Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Farce

Ladies' Night (sometimes marketed as Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath) was a three-act play originally written by Charlton Andrews and later reworked by Avery Hopwood. The play was a sex farce with part of the action set in a Turkish bath instead of a bedroom. A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where opened under the direction of Bertram Harrison on August 9, 1920 at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre. Ladies' Night had a run of 360 performances with the final curtain falling in June, 1921. An adaption of Ladies' Night entitled Ladies' Night at the Turkish Bath was produced by George W. Brandt nearly thirty years later at the Selwyn Theater in New York.

Burns Mantle Yearbook, 1921

Jimmy Walters is a bashful man. Because of his unfortunate reaction to the sight of bare shoulders Jimmy is in danger of becoming a recluse. Also a prude. Therefore, his friends decide he should be cured. They take him to a certain fancy-dress ball where he will see so much flesh he will never again be frightened by a little. The ball is raided and in escaping, Jimmy, dressed as a lady, climbs through the window of a Turkish-bath parlor next door. Fearing arrest, he has a brisk time of it avoiding the attendants, and later, being discovered, it is a little difficult for him to explain to his wife that he did not deliberately plan the masquerade.

The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below:

A review in The Forum said the material "often approaches the obscene. However, it is ridiculously funny, and one cannot help but laugh."