Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Musical numbers

  • Original Overture (arranged by Hamilton Clarke,[16] includes "I once was as meek", "Oh, why am I moody and sad?", "Welcome, gentry", "The battle's roar is over" and "When a man has been a naughty Baronet")
  • Revised Overture (arranged by Geoffrey Toye, 1920; includes "I once was as meek", "When the night wind howls", "I know a youth", "My eyes are fully open", "I shipped, d'ye see" and Hornpipe)
Act I
Courtice Pounds as Richard in the original New York production (1887)
  • 1. "Fair is Rose" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)[17]
  • 2. "Sir Rupert Murgatroyd" (Hannah and Chorus)
  • 3. "If somebody there chanced to be" (Rose)
  • 4. "I know a youth" (Rose and Robin)
  • 5. "From the briny sea" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
  • 6. "I shipp'd, d'ye see, in a revenue sloop" (Richard and Chorus)
  • 6a. Hornpipe
  • 7. "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin and Richard)
  • 8. "The battle's roar is over" (Rose and Richard)
  • 9. "If well his suit has sped" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
  • 10. "In sailing o'er life's ocean wide" (Rose, Richard, and Robin)
  • 11. "Cheerily carols the lark" (Margaret)
  • 12. "Welcome, gentry" (Double Chorus)
  • 13. "Oh, why am I moody and sad?" (Sir Despard and Chorus)
  • 14. "You understand? I think I do" (Richard and Sir Despard)
  • 15. Finale Act I
    • "Hail the bride of seventeen summers" (Ensemble)
    • Madrigal, "When the buds are blossoming" (Ensemble)
    • "When I'm a bad Bart, I will tell taradiddles!" (Robin and Chorus)
    • "Oh, happy the lily" (Ensemble)
Act II
  • 16. "I once was as meek" (Sir Ruthven and Adam)
  • 17. "Happily coupled are we" (Rose and Richard)
  • 18. "In bygone days" (Rose with Chorus of Bridesmaids)
  • 19. "Painted emblems of a race" (Sir Ruthven, Sir Roderic, and Chorus of Ancestors)
  • 20. "When the night wind howls" (Sir Roderic and Chorus)
  • 21. "He yields, he yields" (Chorus)
  • 22. (original) "Away, remorse!" ... "For thirty-five years I've been sober and wary" (Robin)
  • 22. (replaced) "Away, remorse!" ... "Henceforth all the crimes" (Robin) (The original song was replaced about a week into the original run. For the history of this number, see Versions.
  • 23. "I once was a very abandoned person" (Margaret and Despard)
  • 24. "My eyes are fully open" (Margaret, Sir Ruthven, and Despard)
  • 25. "Melodrame"
  • 26. "There grew a little flower" (Hannah with Sir Roderic)
  • 27. Finale Act II (Ensemble)
    • "When a man has been a naughty baronet"
    • "For happy the lily" (reprise) (Ensemble) (See Versions).[18]

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