Theatre Register

The Motor Girl, 1909

Shows · Lyric Theatre, 1909

Original BroadwayLyric Theatre 111 performances

The run dates incomplete

Opened
June 15, 1909
Closed
Performances
111
Previews
Theatre
Lyric Theatre

Of the 1,071 productions we hold that opened in the 1900s and record a performance count, this is the 163rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Who was in it64 named

Helen Adair
Fred Bates
Marie Baxter
Stella Bowe
May Brennan
Georgia Caine
George Callahan
James B Carson
Anita Claire
Alice Clayton
James F Cook
Flora Crosbie
Elinor Dayne
Mildred Desilva
Mayme Dupont
Sue Duval
Lillian Foster
Bessie Franklin
Ross Harvey
Leota Hingston
Valentine Homan
Ned Joyce
Jackson Karlyle
George Lanning
Jack Laughlin
Charles Leach
John Lorenz
Carroll C Lucas
George Lyman
Giorgio Majeroni
Minnesota Martrit
Thomas B Mccormick
Edward Mcnulty
Sadie Melles
Evelyn Meredith
Julia Meredith
Bessilee Merrill
Alvin Morton
Ethel Mostyn
Nancy Newell
Robert O Connor
George O Rourke
George Pauncefort
Anita Pollock
Nancy Poole
Homer Potts
Katherine Robertson
Helen Scotten
John Shaddick
Adelaide Sharp
Frank Shea
Bert Smith
Ethel Tanguay
Mattie ten Eyck
Harry Thornell
Corene Uzzell
Katherine Walden
Katherine Warren
Dorothy Warrington
Laura Wentworth
Elizabeth Young

3 of these 64 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 61 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
Frank Smithson
Choreographer
Frank Smithson
Producer
Frank Hennessy

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 Motor Girl at all.
  • When it closed.
  • No show page for The Motor Girl. 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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