The Girl Behind the Counter: History and Key Facts

The Girl Behind the Counter is an Edwardian musical comedy with a book by Arthur Anderson and Leedham Bantock, music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson (and additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank).

It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 21 April 1906, produced by Frank Curzon and directed by Austen Hurgon. The farcical musical starred Isabel Jay, C. Hayden Coffin and Lawrence Grossmith. It ran for 141 performances in the original London production, and an adaptation ran for twice that long in 1907–08 on Broadway. The Broadway production was "freely adapted and reconstructed by Edgar Smith" and starred Lew Fields and Connie Ediss.

It toured successfully thereafter in the British provinces, the U.S., Australia and elsewhere and enjoyed several revivals.

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