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The Chaperons is a musical comedy with music by Isidore Witmark and lyrics by Frederic Ranken produced at the New York Theatre, New York on 5th. June 1902.
Dramatis Personæ
| Adam Hogg (a Pork-Packer of Cincinnati and President of the International |
Henry Conor | |
| Society for the Investigation and Suppression of Vice) | ||
| Augustus (his Valet) | George K. Henery |
| Algernon O'Shaunessy (studying Rapid Transit in Paris) | Walter Jones |
| Signor Ricardo Bassini (Proprietor of the Opera Company known as |
Jos. C. Miron | |
| the "Ancient and Honorable Parisians") | ||
| Schnitzel (with an appetite for paper) | Edd Redway | |
| Tom Schyuler (an American student of Vocal Music at the Paris | Albert Farrington | |
| Conservatory) | ||
| Pierre Paul Philip Jacques |
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(Student friends of Tom) | { { { { |
D. G. Ruthven E. H. Randall Jake Weibly T. H. Burton |
| François (a head waiter) | Carl Hartberg |
| Aramanthe Dedincourt (Managing Director of the English | Trixie Friganza | |
| and Continental Order of Trained Chaperons) | ||
| Phrosia (an admirer of Old Sleuth) | Eva Tanguay |
| Violet Simlax ( a ward of Adam Hogg and masquerading as Carola |
Nellie Follis | |
| in the Paris Conservatory of Chaperons) | ||
| Jacquelin (Prima Donna Soprano in Bassini's Co.) | Winifred Florence |
| Hortense (Prima Donna Contralto in Bassini's Co.) | May Boley |
| Edourd Jean |
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(Eaton Boys) | { { |
Geralda Malone Ida Hopper |
| Pinzonette Caromella Sybyllena Suzanola Papinezza Bizzibizzi |
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(Pupils in Aramanthe's Conservatory of Choice Chaperons) | { { { { { { |
May Stebbins Sophia Williams Isabel Franklin Nellie Victoria Kathrine Monteith Nina Gillet |
| Clarabella Blewster Ahdelaide Fetherington Maymie Gilburton Mahdeline Pessington Sarahine Kensington |
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(American Chaperons accompanying Violet) | { { { { { |
Geraldine Cooke Elsie Baird May Calvert Ruoy Paine Katherine Call |
| Gertrude Gladys Gwendolin |
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(Chorus Girls in Bassini's Co.)
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{ { { |
Sadie Harris Lillie de Vere Ida Hopper |
MIDI Files
ACT I - Street in Latin Quartier, Paris.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Welcome the morning, with joyful shouts we greet the morn. Behold in this the festal day..."
- No. 2 - Solo and Refrain - Bassini and Chorus - "'Twas the usual thing, when I used to sing in my repertoire operatic..."
- No. 3 - Topical Song - Hogg - "Of the many wicked things now taking place, things demoralizing to the human race..."
- No. 4 - Mock Ballad - Aramenthe - "'Twas off in far Alaska, much hotter than Tabasco, the hyacinths were higher..."
- No. 5 - Song - Violet and Chorus - "There was once a little maiden in the days gone by ... in the days gone by..."
- No. 6 - Comic Song - Algernon, Phrosia and Schnitzel - "A crowded car, two ladies enter there! They have not met for days! ..."
- No. 7 - Song - Tom and Students - "Whate'er our fortunes may be, what you will, good or ill, jolly good comrades are we..."
- No. 8 - Trio - Hortense, Jacqueline, Hogg and Chorus - "You may talk of a walk or a social stalk in the Mall, you know..."
- No. 9 - Finale Act I - "To stop a marriage that's foolish quite, I take this step, it's my legal right..."
ACT II - Court Yard of Imperial Hotel, Alexandria, Egypt.
- No. 10a - Opening Scene - "Oh! Love, airy like, fairy like strains are borne on the breeze..."
- No. 10b - Ensemble and Dance - "Egypt land, may its omnipresent stand where life is ever free as an oriental life can be."
- No. 11 - Song - Bassini and Brigands - "When the stage grows dark as night, and a green and ghastly light streams across it..."
- No. 12 - Ballad - Hogg - "Daylight stealing over night finds a mother in her plight, watching o'er her ailing boy..."
- No. 13 - Ballad - Tom - "It seems like yesterday, when first I saw you standing there..."
- No. 14 - Song - Algernon - "A married man fell fast asleep and dreamed a wond'rous dream..."
- No. 15 - Song - Phrosia and Chorus - "I got a beau, I love him so, he's my sweet lasses Sam, I love him like rasper jam..."
- No. 16 - Comic Trio - Bassini, Aramenthe and Hogg - "The audience that listens to the players on the stage..."
- No. 17 - Duet - Alphonse and Schnitzel - "Happy when we eat and get our fill, we are never anxious for the bill..."
- No. 18 - Finale Act II - "Vive la Bohemia! Vive la Bohemia! Where is a life so free? Where reigns such jollity? ..."
- External Link
- Vocal Score at the University of Rochester
Page modified 16 October 2016