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Libretto by Basil Hood
Music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German
Music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German
Savoy Theatre, London
April 27, 1901
Illustrated with photographs of the original production.
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INTRODUCTION |
ACT I
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| 1 & 2 | OPENING CHORUS AND DANCE -"Have ye heard the brave news" RECIT. & SONG (Terence) - "My friends!...I'm descended from Brian Boru" |
| Dialogue | |
| 3 | SONG (Murphy) - "Of Viceroys though we've had" |
| Dialogue | |
| 4 | SONG (Bunn) - "If you wish to appear as an Irish type" |
| Dialogue | |
| 5 | TRIO (Molly, Terence & Murphy) - "On the heights of Glentaun" |
| Dialogue | |
| 6 | QUARTET (Rosie, Susan, Terence & Bunn) - "Two is company" |
| Dialogue | |
| 7 & 8 | ENTRANCE OF LORD LIEUTENANT, COUNTESS & CHAPLAIN
SONG (Lord Lieutenant) - "At an early stage of life" |
| Dialogue | |
| 9 | SONG (Countess) - "When Alfred's friends their King forsook" |
| Dialogue | |
| 10 | SONG (Rosie) - "Oh, setting sun, you bid the world good-bye" |
| Dialogue | |
| 11 & 12 | QUINTET (Rosie, Susan, Molly, Terence & Bunn) - "Their courage high you may defy" ENTRANCE OF SOLDIERS - "That we're soldiers no doubt you will guess" |
| 13 | SONG (Sergeant) - "Now this is the song of the Devonshire Men" |
| Dialogue | |
| 14 | ENTRANCE OF BUNN - "It is past my comprehension" |
| Dialogue | |
| 15 | FINALE - "Their fathers fought at Ramillies" |
ACT II
| 16 | CHORUS - "Is there anyone approachin'?" |
| Dialogue | |
| 17 | CHORUS & DANCE - "Bedad, it's for him that we'll always employ" |
| Dialogue | |
| 18 | JIG |
| Dialogue | |
| 18a | CHORUS - "Och, the spalpeen! Let him drown!" |
| Dialogue | |
| 19 | SONG (Terence) - "Oh have you met a man in debt" |
| Dialogue | |
| 20 | DUET (Rosie & Terence) - "'Twas in Hyde Park beside the Row" |
| Dialogue | |
| 21 | ENSEMBLE - "I cannot play at love" |
| Dialogue | |
| 22 | SONG (Bunn) - "Oh, the age in which we're living" |
| Dialogue | |
| 23 | CONCERTED PIECE - "Sing a rhyme of 'Once upon a time'" |
| Dialogue | |
| 24 | SCENA - "Listen! Hearken, my lover" |
| Dialogue | |
| 25 & 26 | SONG (Murphy) - "Goodbye my native town" DUET (Molly & Murphy;) "I love you! I love you!" |
| Dialogue | |
| 27 | SONG (Terence) - "There was once a little soldier" |
| Dialogue | |
| 28 | FINALE - "With a big shillelagh" |
Only Nos. 1 & 2 were completed by Sullivan. The other Sullivan numbers in the piece, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23 and 27, were harmonized and orchestrated by Edward German. German composed the Introduction and Nos. 9, 10, 13, 17, 18, 18a, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26. The Finale to Act II is made up of a section of No.4 and a section of No. 17.
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