Theatre Register

The Messenger Boy, 1901

Shows · Dalys Theatre, 1901

Original BroadwayDalys Theatre128 performances

The run closed January 4, 1902

Opened
September 16, 1901
Closed
January 4, 1902
Performances
128
Previews
Theatre
Dalys Theatre

Of the 1,071 productions we hold that opened in the 1900s and record a performance count, this is the 121st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it31 named

Agnes Blake Wadleigh
Rachel Booth
Georgia Caine
Helen Chichester
Armand Cortes
Harold C Crane
Leonora Crum
Herbert Darley
George de Long
Miss Fanchonette
Tom Hadaway
George Heath
George Honey
Jobyna Howland
Bertha Hunter
John P Kennedy
Caroline Locke
Sally Mcneil
Louise Murry
Paul Nicholson
John B Park
George Pullman
Florence Redmond
May Robson
Abner Seymour
J W Styles
Hattie Waters
Agnes Wayburn
Dene Woodruff
Flora Zabelle

1 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
Herbert Gresham
Producer
Sam Nixon

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 The Messenger Boy at all.
  • No show page for The Messenger Boy. 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.

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