 The Players' small theater was too small to cope with audience demand for tickets, and the play was transferred to another theater.It ran for 204 performances and was hugely popular, and toured in the States with this cast for the next two years.Gilpin continued to perform the role of Brutus Jones in the U.S. tour that followed the Broadway closing of the play, and in 1920 became the first black American to receive the Drama League of New York's annual award as one of the ten people who had done the most that year for American theater.