A Gaiety Girl - Roles and Original London Cast

Roles and Original London Cast

  • Sir Lewis Gray (a judge) - Eric Lewis (later replaced by Rutland Barrington)
Officers in the Life Guards
Charles Goldfield - C. Hayden Coffin (later replaced by Scott Russell)
Major Barclay - Fred Kaye
Bobbie Rivers - W. Louis Bradfield
Harry Fitzwarren - Leedham Bantock
Romney Farquhar - Lawrance D'Orsey
  • Lance - Gilbert Porteous
  • Auguste (a bathing attendant) - Fitz Rimma
  • Dr. Montague Brierly - Harry Monkhouse (later replaced by Huntley Wright)
  • Rose Brierly (his daughter) - Decima Moore
  • Lady Edytha Aldwyn (a Society lady) - Kate Cutler
  • Miss Gladys Stourton (a Society lady) - Marie Studholme (later replaced by Coralie Blythe)
  • Hon. Daisy Ormsbury (a Society lady) - Louie Pounds
  • Lady Grey - E. Phelps
Gaiety Girls
Alma Somerset (the title character) - Maud Hobson (later replaced by Marie Studholme)
Cissy Verner - Blanche Massey
Haidee Walton - Ethel Selwick
Ethel Hawthorne - Violet Robinson
  • Mina (a French maid) - Juliette Nesville
  • Lady Virginia Forest - Lottie Venne
  • Dancers - Topsy Sinden and later Letty Lind

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