 Talbot had a monstrous hit with "A Chinese Honeymoon" and had written such other long-running musicals as "The Girl from Kays".He had worked with writer Alexander M. Thompson and producer Robert Courtneidge previously, including on "The Blue Moon".Historically, musically and dramatically, "The Arcadians" and the other Edwardian musical comedies sit between the fading world of British comic opera, like the Gilbert and Sullivan works, and the later styles of musical comedy and music hall.