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Nancy Brown is a musical comedy in two acts with book and lyrics by Frederick Ranken and music by Henry K. Hadley which opened at the at the Bijou Theatre, New York, on 16 February 1903.
Dramatis Personæ
| MULEY MUSTAPHA (Bey of Ballyhoo) | Edwin Stevens |
| MARA MUSTAPHA (his Son, the Crown Prince) | Albert Parr |
| SOCRATES FINIS (Chairman of his Board of Strategy) | Harry Brown |
| NOAH LITTLE (an agent for a substitute firm) | Al Grant |
| VANDERHYPHEN JENKS (an only son) | Alfred Hickman |
| COUNT FROMAGE DE BRIE BARON SAURBRATEN LORD WORCESTERSHIRE THE GRAND DUKE DRINKAMUTCHKY |
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(Members of the Amalagated Order of Impecunious Noblemen) |
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George Beban Henry Vogel John Havens Frank Dearduff |
| HULLYBALOO (Landlord of the Outside Inn) | Madison Smith |
| NANCY BROWN (a marriage broker) | Marie Cahill |
| MURIEL (her stenographer) | Grace Cameron |
| THE PRINCESS BARBOO (only daughter of the Bey) | Judith Berolde |
| MRS. JOHN JENKS (of Porkopolis) | Jean Newcombe |
| TUTU ZUZU TULU |
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(Maidens of Ballyhoo) | { { { |
Alice Knowlton Lita Castle Helen Lathrop |
| GWENDOLEN MAUD SALLY GRACIE ALICE ADIE RENA NARA |
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(American Heiresses) | { { { { { { { { |
Maud Francis Adele Archer Leslie Mayo Ruby Paine Edythe Moyer Maude Sloane Helene Curzon Aline Boyd |
| STROLLING MINSTRELS | { { |
Lita Castello Harry Burgess |
ACT I - A Public Square in Ballyhoo.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Rustle and bustle and tussle and hustle and create a furore with voice and with muscle, hurry and scurry and flurry and worry..."
- No. 2 - Quartette - Worcestershire, De Brie, Saurbraten and Drinkamutchky - "As you travel around this world, you say ... Strange! Odd! Queer! ..."
- No. 3 - Entrance of the Bey - "Blow the trumpets! Beat the little drums and big drums! Welcome to the Bey of Ballyhoo! Sound the gong..."
- No. 4 - Song - Bey and Chorus - "Allow me to inform you in a manner most official, I'm a man who has a duty to be done; I lower the swollen headed..."
- No. 5 - Song - Nancy - "Mose Lincoln Lee from Tennessee, for his discourse took this text: Dat half-way doins' aint no account in a dis world or de next..."
- No. 6 - Entrance of Show Girls - "We've just made a great sensation, all as debutantes you see. Not a circus aggregation ever drew such crowds as we..."
- No. 7 - Song - Muriel, with Vanderhyphen - "When a little boy's been naughty and his mother finds it out, a spanking breeze comes blowing from the shore..."
- No. 8 - Nancy and Chorus - "A little Glow-Worm, all alone, lived in a forest dark; a gay young Moth came winging by and heard her soft remark..."
- No. 9 - Serenade - Captain and Chorus - "A soldier of fortune in far away Venice goes forth with his light guitar; from gondola floating, the hour striking ten..."
- No. 10 - Finale Act I - "Welcome! How d'ye do? We're glad to see you; come right in, pray do! Pray feel at home! Step inside the Inn! You must be thirsty..."
ACT II - A Room in the Palace.
- No. 11a - Male Chorus and Solo - Worcestershire - "A health! A health! Our tankards fill with wine so richly flowing; A toast! A toast, to echo still..."
- No. 11b - Entrance of Oriental Girls - "Zing! zing-zing-zing! zing! zing-zing-zing! Dancing lightly, bending slightly." etc. "We do this thing just to please you..."
- No. 12 - Song - Vanderhyphen - "There are two eyes to which the sun can not new luster lend; two eyes in which the midnight and the starlight softly blend..."
- No. 13 - Song - Vanderhyphen - "Each morning when I first get up and thtand upon the floor, I have to thtop and think, how ev'ry thing's a dreadful bore..."
- No. 14 - Cupid's Ramble - Nancy and Girls - "Cupid is out on a ramble, and to his archery who knows but you may fall a victim; Cupid, you know, is very clever..."
- No. 15 - Stenographers Song - Muriel and Chorus - "When anything is said to me, I jot it down; (We jot it down.) What I might say instead, you see, I jot it down."
- No. 16 - Military Song - Prince and Chorus - "I love to hear the rattle of the musketry in battle, or the booming thunder of the canon's roar..."
- No. 17 - Finale Act II - "Shine on! my Glow-worm, shine out tonight; I'll be your loving Moth, you be my light; just like the little stars, brighter than all..."
- External Links
- Vocal Score at UR Research
Page modified 1 February 2017