 The play was a moderate Broadway hit, debuting at the Garrick  Theatre on 9 Jan 1922 and ran for a 182 performances, closing that  June. Unlike the film, the stage production, with the major  exception of Consuelo, did not give most of the characters names  (simply calling them, "A Juggler," "An Acrobat," etc.) and MGM did  not credit Gregory Zilboorg for the theatrical adaptation of the  Russian novel by Leonid Andreyev.