The Pink Lady is a musical comedy in three acts with lyrics by C. M. S. McLellan and music by Ivan Caryll which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York on 13 March 1911 where it ran for 312 performances.

Dramatis Personæ

SERPOLETTE POCHET Miss Alma Francis DÉSIRÉE Miss Ida M. Adams A PHOTOGRAPHER Mr. E. Dudley POCHET Mr. Newton Lindo THE HUNGRY MAN Mr. Joseph E. Carey ANNETTE Miss Ida Cabrielle GILBERTE Miss Olive Depp GABRIELLE Miss Eunice Mackey RAYMONDE Miss Trixie Whitford MINETTE Miss Florence Walton SOPHIE Miss Erminie Clark BENEVOL Mr. Fred Wright, Jr. LUCIEN GARIDEL Mr. William Elliott JULIE Miss Ruby Lewis NINI Miss Teddy Hudson SUZANNE Miss May Hennessy ANGELE Miss Alice Dovey MAURICE D'UZAC Mr. Crauford Kent BÉBÉ GUINGOLPH Mr. John E. Young CLAUDINE (the Pink Lady) Miss Hazel Dawn CRAPOTE Mr. Harry Depp MADAME DONDIDIER Miss Alice Hegeman PHILLIPPE DONDIDIER Mr. Frank Lalor THEODORE LEBEC Mr. A. S. Humerson LA COMTESSE DE MONTANVERT Miss Louise Kelley ROUGET Mr. W. J. Sadler DR. MAZOU Mr. M. Hegeman PAN Mr. Joseph E. Carey YWAXY   (a Violinist) Mr. Benj. Lissit

The Pink Lady, 1911 poster by Hamilton King

MIDI Files

ACT I   -   The Gardens of "Joli Coucou",
a restaurant in the Forest of Compiegne, France.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Here's a lady who but yesterday was no one, in a neighborhood that's famous as a slow one..."
• No. 2 - Song - Benevol & Chorus - "Ev'rything I do, ev'rything I don't do, ev'rything I will, ev'rything I won't do..."
• No. 3 - Duet - Angele & Maurice - "When love goes a-straying, oh, where does he go? ..."
• No. 4 - Duet - Bébe & Désirée, with Chorus - "By the banks of the Seine, with the girls so beautiful..."
• No. 5 - Song - Claudine & Chorus - "When Gustave proposed to me, he went down on bended knee..."
• No. 6 - Finale Act I - "The game I hunt I never miss, and ere he's many hours older..."

ACT II   -   Interior of an Antique Shop in the Rue St. Honore, Paris.

• No. 7 - Opening Chorus & Solo - Crapotte - "Oh, fortunate man who has taste and gold, for him is the art that is chaste..."
• No. 8 - Quartet - Claudine, Lucien Garidel, Dondidier & Crapotte - "My name's Garidel, hers Claudine..."
• No. 9 - Concerted Number - La Comtesse, Mme. Dondidier, Lucien, Dondidier & Chorus - "What's the matter..."
• No. 10 - The Kiss Waltz - Claudine - "I have kisses in plenty, but, if you please, I give various kisses in diff'rent keys..."
• No. 11 - Duet - Angele & Dondidier - "Oh, I'm a wicked, awful wicked man..."
• No. 12 - Quartet - Angele, Claudine, Lucien & Maurice - "Since France was France, and man was man..."
• No. 13 - Finale Act II - "Again a cry ... This time it's I ... What does it mean? ... See what I've seen! ..."

ACT III   -   Al Fresco Ball of the Nymphs and Satyrs, at the Tabarin, Paris.

• No. 14 - The Parisian Two-Step - "Hoop-la!  Lift your feet up high, heel and toe, off we go..."
• No. 15 - Song - Dondidier & Chorus - "At half past two this afternoon I was a moral man..."
• No. 16 - Song - Claudine & Angele - "If I were a man I'd be not president, but just he who plays the violin in the band..."
• No. 18 - Finale Act III - "Flow, river, flow down to the sea;  bright sea, bring my loved one home to me..."

Addendum (Act I)

• No. 17 - Additional Song - Lucien Garidel - "I'm going to be married in June; it's now the beginning of May..."

 MIDI files

External Links

Vocal Score at UR Research

The Pink Lady at Wikipedia

Musical of the Month: The Pink Lady at New York Public Library

Historical Recordings at the Library of Congress

Pink Lady Waltzes, Victor Dance Orchestra [1911]

Gems from The Pink Lady, Victor Light Opera Company [1911]

Gems from The Pink Lady, Victor Light Opera Company [1914]

No. 4: By the Saskatchewan, Reinald Werrenrath {1911]

No. 16: My beautiful lady, Lucy Isabelle Marsh [1911]

American Musical Theatre

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