The run closed April 28, 1917
- Opened
- November 6, 1916
- Closed
- April 28, 1917
- Performances
- 200
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 108th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it95 named
Dave Abrams
Miss Adair
Geraldine Alexander
Billie Allen
Annette Bade
Frankie Bailey
Miss Baker
Sam Barndooroff
The Barr Twins
Miss Beele
Adelaide Bell
Jane Bliss
Helen Borden
Miss Brown
Miss Bruce
Dorothea Camden
Miss Carr
Clara Carroll
Marjorie Cassidy
Miss Chase
Mildred Colby
Evelyn Conway
Miss Cronan
Arthur Cunningham
Miss Curtis
Betty Daintry
Miss Daly
Miss de Beers
Ethel Delmar
Miss Dewey
Semone D Herlys
Mr Dillon
Ethel Donaldson
James Doyle
Marie Dressler
Martha Ehrlich
Miss Ellison
Francis Elsworth
Eileen Errol
Madeleine Fairbanks
Marion Fairbanks
Miss Feltes
Miss Field
Mildred Fisher
Elizabeth Gardiner
Miss Godins
Miss Gray
Miss Greete
Miss Gumport
Flo Hart
Hilda Hirsch
Miss Irving
Miss James
Agnes Jepson
Harry Kelloski
Evelyn Kerner
Miss Kerstein
Katherine Kohler
Miss le Grande
May Leslie
Hazel Lewis
Ruby Lewis
Miss Logan
Miss Loring
Miss Mack
Miss Mackensie
Elva Magnus
Vera Maxwell
Myles Mccarthy
Gus Minton
Miss Montague
Margaret Morris
Miss Murphy
Mrs Owen
Kathryn Perry
Miss Reeves
Agnes Richter
Miss Roberts
Yvonne Shelton
John Slavin
Miss Stone
Lilyan Tashman
Van and Schenck
Miss Wallace
Florence Walton
Miss Watson
Miss Whitney
8 of these 95 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 87 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
- Director
- Leon Errol, Edward Royce
- Choreographer
- Edward Royce
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.
Around this production
The Century Girl is a musical comedy revue with music by Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin, and lyrics by Henry Blossom and Berlin. It opened November 6, 1916, at the Century Theatre on Broadway and ran until April 28, 1917, totaling 200 performances. Rather than having a cohesive plot, the show was a mixture of musical and vaudeville performances.
- Other famous scores include Babes in Toyland (1903), It Happened in Nordland (1904), The Red Mill (1906), The Lady of the Slipper (1912), The Only Girl (1914), The Princess Pat (1915), The Century Girl (1916), The Velvet Lady (1919), Orange Blossoms (1922), and The Dream Girl (1924). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 189
- “Alice In Wonderland” [2nd]—different than song from THE CENTURY GIRL [November 6, 1916] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 119
- These included extravaganzas (Babes in Toyland), musical comedies (The Only Girl, 1914), and revues (The Century Girl, 1916, with additional songs) Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 146
- A sidelight of Berlin’s early years was the 1916 revue The Century Girl, jointly produced by Dillingham and Ziegfeld. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 94
- Irving Berlin still writing for The Ziegfeld Follies after having contributed six songs in an attempt to modernize Victor Herbert’s The Century Girl of 1916, and Herbert himself and George M. Cohan nearing the end of their Broadway triumphs. The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 32
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Century Girl at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.