Original Version

The Cingalee, or Sunny Ceylon is a musical play in two acts by James T. Tanner, with music by Lionel Monckton, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and additional material by Paul Rubens. It opened at Daly's Theatre in London, managed by George Edwardes, on March 5, 1904 and ran until March 11, 1905 for a total of 365 (another source giving 391) performances.

Dramatis Personæ

Harry Vereker (A Tea Planter) C. Hayden Coffin Boobhamba (A Noble of Kandy) Rutland Barrington Sir Peter Loftus (High Commissioner and Judge, Ceylon) Fred Kaye Myamgah (An Indian Servant) Willie Warde Pupils of Vereker on the Tea Plantation: Bobby Warren Henry J. Ford, Dick Bosanquet Conway Dixon, Freddie Lowther Arthur Hope, Jack Clinton Archie Anderson, Willie Wilson J. Boddy Captain of the Guard Norman Greene Attendant F. J. Blackman Chambhuddy Ram (A Baboo Lawyer) Huntley Wright
		Illustration from The Graphic, 19 March 1904

Huntley Wright as Chambhuddy Ram and Gracie Leigh as Peggy Sabine

Nanoya (A Cingalese Girl) Sybil Arundale Peggy Sabine Gracie Leigh Four Tea Girls on Vereker's Plantation:     Naitooma Carrie Moore   Sattambi Alice D'Orme   Mychellah Freda Vivian   Coorowe Doris Severn Angy Loftus (Sir Peter's Daughter) Doris Stocker Angy's Governesses:   Miss Pinkerton Nina Sevening   Fräulein Weiner Mary Fraser   Mademoiselle Chic Mabel Hirst   Signorina Tasso Joan Keddie Lady Patricia Vane Isabel Jay

MIDI Files

ACT I -   Vereker's Tea Plantation, "Karagama," Ceylon.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Sleepy Ceylon."
• No. 2 - Octet - Tea Girls and Pupils - "Girls on a tea plantation..."
• No. 3 - Song - Vereker - "Beyond the bar of fair Manaar..."
• No. 4 - Duet - Nanoya and Vereker - "Little girl to school must go..."
• No. 5 - Chorus and Scene - "What on earth is that?"
• No. 6 - March, Chorus and Song - Boobhamba - "Hail the noble deeply venerated..."
• No. 7 - Song - Chambhuddy - "Some years ago when a very chotah boy..."
• No. 8 - Song - Lady Patricia - "As you have to decide on a bride..."
• No. 9 - Song - Naitooma and Tea Girls - "Tea, Tea, Tea."
• No. 10 - Duet - Peggy and Chambhuddy - "White and Brown Girl."
• No. 11 - Sextet - "In the Island of Gay Ceylon."
• No. 12 - Song - Nanoya - "My Cinnamon Tree."
• No. 13 - Finale - Act I - "Have you found the girl?"

ACT II -   Boobhamba's Palace by the Lake of Kandy.

• No. 14 - Act II Opening Chorus - "At the Palace of Boobhamba..."
• No. 15 - Song - Nanoya, Tea Girls and Chorus - "I'm a maiden merry, sorry to be sold..."
• No. 16 - Concerted Number - "I'm afraid I do not quite understand..."
• No. 17 - Song - Chambhuddy - "If English Pot a rich man be..."
• No. 18 - Song - Vereker - "My dear little Cingalee."
• No. 19 - Quartet - "True Love."
• No. 20 - Song - Naitooma and Chorus - "A Cingalese Wedding."
• No. 21 - Chorus - "On the quiet lake the moonbeams shimmer..."
• No. 22 - Song - Boobhamba and Chorus - "A Happy New Year."
• No. 23 - Song - Nanoya - "You met a little girl one day..."
• No. 24 - Duet - Peggy and Chambhuddy - "In a jungle once on a time..."
• No. 25 - Finale - Act II - "Cingalee, Cingalee..."
• Addendum - Song - Lady Patricia - "You and I, and I and you..."

1905 Version

Libretto [PDF, 66.7MB]

External Linkss

Vocal Score at the University of Rochester

The Cingalee at Wikipedia

The Cingalee at The Guide to Musical Theatre

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