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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