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Madame Pompadour is an operetta in three acts by Rudolf Schanzer and Ernst Welisch composed by Leo Fall which opened at the Berliner Theater, Berlin on 9 September, 1922. An English adaptation by Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham opened at Daly's Theatre, London on 20 December, 1923. A different adaptation into English was seen in New York.

Dramatis Personæ

KING LOUIS XV Bertram Wallis
RENÉ, COMTE D'ESTRADES Derek Oldham
MAUREPAS   (Minister of Police) Leonard Mackay
POULARD   (his Assistant) Leonard Russell
PRUNIER   (Landlord of the "Nine Muses") Noel Colne
COLLIN   (Pompadour's Chamberlain) Edmund D. La Touche
AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR Louis Harrison
LIEUT. CORNEILLE   (In Command of the Guard) Donald Mather
BOUCHER   (Court Painter) Fred Pedgrift
TOURELLE   (Porcelain Manufacturer) Desmond Roberts
JACQUES Stanley Rendall
JOSEPH CALICOT Huntley Wright
MADELEINE   (Comtesse D'Estrades) Maisie Bell
MARIETTE   (Maid to Madame Pompadour) Elsie Randolph
MADAME POMPADOUR Evelyn Laye

Musical Numbers

ACT I   -   The Tavern of "The Nine Muses".

ACT II   -   The Pompadour's Apartments at Versailles.

ACT III   -   King Louis XV's Apartments at Versailles.


External Links
Madame Pompadour at The Guide to Musical Theatre
Madame Pompadour at Wikipedia

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