Good Morning Dearie is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Anne Caldwell and music by Jerome Kern. It opened at the Globe Theatre, New York, on 1 November 1921.
Dramatis Personæ
FLORRIE | Ruth Williamson |
CHERRY | Lilyan White |
PAT | Patricia Clark |
MARGIE | Pauline Hall |
GEORGE MASON | John Price Jones |
RUBY MANNERS | Peggy Kurton |
MADAME LOMPARD | Ada Lewis |
BILLY VAN CORTLANDT | Oscar Shaw |
GIMPY | John J. Scannell |
ROSE MARIE | Louise Groody |
CHESTY COSTELLO | Harland Dixon |
STEVE SIMMONS | William Kent |
CUTIE | Marie Callahan |
KIRBY | Raymond Moore |
SING LEE | Otis Harper |
HOI FAT | Irving Jackson |
LIM HO | Edouard Le Febvre |
PIERRE | Joseph Vian |
GIGI | Daniel Sparks |
MRS. GREYSON PARKS | Roberta Beatty |
MISS HETHERINGTON | Gertrude Feeley |
PAULINE | Hebe Halpin |
DOROTHY | Miriam Miller |
MURIEL | Muriel Harrison |
WINTERS | Ernest Martin |
SYLVIA | Darling Twins |
HARRIET | Darling Twins |
ACT I - Scene 1 - Workroom of the Toddle Shop.
- No. 1 - Introduction
- No. 2 - Ensemble - Billy, Georgie and Models - "Ev'ry girl I get engaged to goes and marries someone else; in fooling, foolish fashion, I waste a lot of passion..."
- No. 3 - Duet - Chesty and Rose-Marie - "Some people thinks that the wise-crackin' ginks live a-way up on Fifth Avenoo. I'll tell the world it ain't true..."
- No. 4 - Scena - Rose-Marie and Billy - "There are just as many diff'rent names as twinkling stars above..." & "When I used to look in a booklet I took..."
- No. 5 - Finaletto - "When work is over and day is done, customers hateful at last disappear. Night-time is right time for ev'ry one, close up shop and forget it..."
ACT I - Scene 2 - Exterior of the Dance Hall.
ACT I - Scene 3 - Interior of Hells' Bells Dance Hall.
- No. 7 - Opening of Dance Hall Scene - "Ring those bells, ring those bells, ring those bells, ding, dong, ding, dong..."
- No. 8 - Scena, and Duet - Rose Marie and Billy - "When the guns are booming a welcome..." & "When a chap would utter words that make him stutter..."
- No. 9 - Trio - Gimpy, Chesty and Simmons - "I was a second story worker up in Worcester, Mass., 'til the cops got hep that the old lock step would keep me..."
- No. 10 - Finale Act I - "If you should part, after once he has met you, heart of my heart, he will never forget you; he will come back to his dear little Rose-Marie."
- No. 10a - Entr'acte
ACT II - Scene 1 - Showroom of the Toddle Shop.
- No. 11 - Prelude
- No. 12 - Song - Simmons and Girls - "Chinaman a big fool, went to night school, learn to be a Yankee ev'ry day; sent across the waters for my daughters..."
- No. 13 - Duet and Dance - Rose Marie and Billy - "Every play I see finishes, I am sure, just as the groom and bride go side by side upon their wedding tour..."
- No. 14 - Pas de deux
- No. 15 - Toddle Chorus and Dance - "Silvery bells are chiming on the avenue; they gaily seem to say: 'It's someone's wedding day!' ..."
ACT II - Scenes 2 & 3 - Fragonard, and the Terrace at Mrs. Greyson Park's Home.
- No. 16 - Ka-lu-a Song - Billy and Girls - "Where the feathered palm trees lightly sway high above the blue Hawaiian bay, set in opal, rose and pearl..."
- No. 17 - Dance Eccentrique
- No. 18 - Song - Rose-Marie and Men - "Listen, won't you save a life today? I know that all you want to say would simply flatter me, you chatter as the men all do."
- No. 19 - Dance
- No. 20 - Finale Act II - "The biggest suckers you can meet are right on Forty-second Street in old New York..."
- External Link
- Vocal Score at UR Research
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