Lightnin', 1918

The run closed August 27, 1921

Opened

August 26, 1918

Closed

August 27, 1921

Performances

1,291

Previews

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Theatre

Gaiety Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Lightnin' 1 more that season

Who was in it34 named

Bessie Bacon
E J Blunkall
Sidney Coburn
Sam Coit
Fred Conklin
Harry Davenport
Mary Duryea
William F Granger
Frances Kennan
James C Lane
Thomas Maclarnie
Beth Martin
Ralph Morgan
Beatrice Nichols
Jane Oaker
Minnie Palmer
Jessie E Pringle
Phyllis Rankin
George Spelvin
Paul Stanton
Helen Story
George Thompson
Ruth Towle
Sue Wilson
Julio Brown
Margaret Campbell
Walter Ducart
John Hamilton
Helen Hutchens
William Lamb
Georgie Drew Mendum
Alice Quigley
Jason Robards
Beth Varden

0 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Producer

John Golden

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Lightnin' at all.
• No director named.
• No show page for Lightnin'. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.