 The same issue of "The Era" states that definite plans had been made for Sothern to appear at the Gaiety Theatre, London in "Foggerty's Fairy", as the new play was now called, in October 1880, after the end of his American tour.Sothern did not produce the play in the spring, and scholar Andrew Crowther speculates that Gilbert was late in completing it.In addition, Sothern had been ill for much of the time since the autumn, although he fulfilled his performing commitments.