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This list was compiled by readers of "Precious Nonsens", the newsletter of the Midwestern Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

Scene 1

OPENING DANCE:

  1. The Mikado, Opening Act 1.
  2. Trial By Jury, "Hark, the hour of Ten is sounding".
  3. The Mikado, "So please you, sir, we much regret" ("But youth,
    of course, must have its fling. . .").
  4. Patience, "The Soldiers of our Queen".
  5. Trial by Jury, "He will treat us with awe" ("Trial-la- law").
  6. The Gondoliers, "Good Morrow, Pretty Maids" (orchestral accompaniment).
  7. Trial By Jury, "Hark, the hour of Ten is sounding".
  8. The Mikado, "So please you, sir, we much regret".

POLL'S DANCE AND PAS DE DEUX:

  1. The Gondoliers, introduction to "Here is a Case Unprecedented".
  2. Princess Ida, Introduction to "The Woman of the Wisest Wit".
  3. The Gondoliers, "Here is a Case Unprecedented".
  4. Patience, "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We" ("Go, breaking heart").
  5. The Gondoliers, "Here is a Case Unprecedented" and Patience,"Twenty Lovesick Maidens We" in counterpoint.
  6. The Gondoliers, "Here is a Case Unprecedented".
  7. Princess Ida, End of "The Woman of the Wisest Wit".

BELAYE'S SOLO:

  1. Cox and Box, "Rataplan".
  2. Patience, "In a Doleful Train".
  3. Cox and Box, "Rataplan (...rataplan, I'm a military man. . .)"
  4. Cox and Box, "Rataplan" (second appearance in the work, when it is the only lyric).
  5. Cox and Box, conclusion of overture.

PAS DE TROIS:

  1. The Mikado, Introduction to "Braid the Raven Hair".
  2. The Pirates of Penzance, "How Beautifully Blue the Sky".
  3. The Pirates of Penzance, "Did ever maiden wake from dream".
  4. The Pirates of Penzance, "How Beautifully Blue the Sky".
  5. Ruddigore, "If somebody there chanced to be". (Refrain)
  6. The Pirates of Penzance, "How Beautifully Blue the Sky".
  7. The Pirates of Penzance, "Did ever maiden wake from dream".

FINALE:

  1. Patience, "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We".
  2. The Pirates of Penzance, "The Pirates! Oh Despair!" (Introduction).
  3. Ruddigore, "Deny the Falsehood, Robin, as you should. . ." (Act I Finale).
  4. Iolanthe, "To You I yield my heart so rich. . ."(Act I Finale).
  5. Patience, Overture/"Oh list, while we a love confess".
  6. Iolanthe, "To You I yield my heart so rich".
  7. Patience, Overture (end).

Scene 2

POLL'S SOLO:

  1. Iolanthe, Invocation. Transition to

JASPER'S SOLO:

  1. Iolanthe, Overture (transition between "Welcome to Our Hearts Again" and "He Loves").
  2. Princess Ida, Overture ("Oh Goddess Wise" to the end).

Scene 3

BELAYE'S SOLO AND SAILOR'S DRILL:

  1. Princess Ida, "When Anger Spreads His Wing".
  2. Princess Ida, "For a Month to Dwell in a Dungeon Cell".
  3. The Gondoliers, "Two Kings of Undue Pride Bereft".
  4. Ruddigore, "When a Man Has Been a Naughty Baronet"/Theme from the original overture/Act II Finale.

POLL'S SOLO:

  1. Trial by Jury, "That She is Reeling is Plain to See".
  2. Iolanthe, (motif)
  3. Patience, Overture (before the music for "Turn oh Turn in this Direction").
  4. Princess Ida, "The World is But a Broken Toy".

ENTRY OF BELAYE WITH BLANCHE AS BRIDE:

  1. The Yeomen of the Guard, Flourish for Fairfax's Entrance to claim his Bride.
  2. Trial by Jury, Entry of the Bridesmaids.
  3. Iolanthe, First act Finale (the Peers' "Oh Horror" and Fairies' response).
  4. Iolanthe, "Once Again Thy Vows are Broken" ("Bow Thy Head to Destiny").
  5. Iolanthe, First act "Horror".
  6. Iolanthe, "Once Again Thy Vows are Broken".
  7. Trial by Jury, "I Love Him, I Love Him, with Fervour Unceasing".
  8. Iolanthe, "Go Away Madam" (First Act Finale).

RECONCILIATION:

  1. Ruddigore, "The Battle's Roar is Over" (from Overture).

FINALE:

  1. The Mikado, Introduction to "The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away".
  2. Trial by Jury, "Oh Joy Unbounded".
  3. H.M.S. Pinafore, "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore".
  4. Patience, Overture ("So Go to Him, and Say to Him").
  5. Princess Ida, "Gently, Gently. . ." ("We've Learned that Prickly Cactus").
  6. The Pirates of Penzance/Thespis, "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain ("Let us Gaily Tread the Measure").
  7. The Pirates of Penzance, "Sighing Softly to the River" (in counterpoint to above)
  8. Patience, Overture ("So Go to Him, and Say to Him").
  9. Trial by Jury, "Oh Joy Unbounded".
  10. Overture Di Ballo, Galop theme.
  11. The Yeomen of the Guard, Overture (Tower Theme)
  12. Patience, Overture.
  13. H.M.S. Pinafore, Overture/Ruddigore, Overture (very end).
  14. The Mikado, First act Finale (very end).

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