Thursday, 20 April 2006

The Girl Behind the Counter with a book by the British dramatists Arthur Anderson (1873-1942) and Leedham Bantock (1870-1928), music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson. It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 21 April 1906, produced by Frank Curzon and directed by Austen Hurgon.

   Scenes from The Girl Behind the Counter (Edwardian musical comedy) with a book by the British dramatists Arthur Anderson (1873-1942) and Leedham Bantock (1870-1928), music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson. It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 21 April 1906, produced by Frank Curzon and directed by Austen Hurgon.

   The farcical musical starred Isabel Jay, C. Hayden Coffin and Lawrence Grossmith. It ran for 141 performances in the original London production, and an adaptation ran for twice that long in 1907–08 on Broadway. The Broadway production was "freely adapted and reconstructed by Edgar Smith" and starred Lew Fields and Connie Ediss.



THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER, COFFIN-ISABELL JAY-MILLS, 1906


Hayden Coffin and Isabel Jay "The Girl Behind The Counter"


Violet Englefield and Lawrence Grossmith "The Girl Behind The Counter" 


Marie Dainton and J F McArdle "The Girl Behind The Counter"

Coralie Blythe and Horace Mills "The Girl Behind The Counter"




Isabel Jay as Winnie Willoughby


Cover of The Play Pictorial, vol. 7, no. 45, 1906


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