Opened at the Broadway’s Madison Square Theatre on November 9, 1891. Closed August 7, 1893 after 657 performances — 21 months. 👑 Broadway's longest-running show from June 22, 1893 until March 17, 1920. A Trip to Chinatown is a musical comedy in three acts with a book by Charles H. Hoyt, music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Hoyt. In addition to the Gaunt and Hoyt score, many songs were interpolated into the score at one time or another during the run, as was fashionable for musicals of the era. The story concerns a widow who accidentally maneuvers two young suburban couples into a big city restaurant and brings romance to them and herself. It is loosely based on an 1835 English one-act farce, A Day Well Spent, by John Oxenford. Wiki link