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He Came from Milwaukee is a musical comedy in two acts with book by Mark Swan and Edgar Smith, lyrics by Edward Madden and music by Louis A. Hirsch and Ben M. Jerome. It was produced at the Casino Theatre, New York, on 21 September 1910.
Dramatis Personæ
| HERMAN VON SCHNELLENVEIN | Sam Bernard | |
| NAPOLEON RAVACHAL (Conspirator of Zurach) | Louis Harrison | |
| EGBERT KESKIESKO (Duke of Zurach) | George Anderson | |
| BRUCE CHETWYNDE (Companion to the Duke) | Martin Brown | |
| BROKASKI (General of the army in Zurach) | Henry Norman | |
| LESTICHY (Conspirator and Companion to Napoleon) | Charles Burrows | |
| LIEUTENANT (of the army of Zurach) | Paul Masaeus | |
| SENTRY (of the army of Zurach, a Conspirator) | Henry Holt | |
| SERGEANT (of the army of Zurach) | Dolph Ryan | |
| PORTER (of the Hotel in Ostend) | Frank Sargent | |
| FOOTMAN (to the Duke of Zurach) | Bert Lawrence | |
| CONSTANCE HARVEY (in love with the Duke) | Winona Winter | |
| BETTY WINTHROP (cousin to Constance, in love with Bruce) | Adele Rowland | |
| MRS. MATTHEW HARVEY | Alice Gordon | |
| (of Ft. Wayne, Indiana; mother of Constance) | ||
| LESKA (a loyal subject to the Duke) | Nella Bergen | |
ACT I - Hotel of Ostend.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "My! What a cosmopolitan crowd at Ostend! Quite annoying, is it not? Sort of a social melting pot. Classes mix! What utter rot! ..."
- No. 2 - Song - Leska and Chorus - "There lies a land where I command full many a wand'ring band ... Gypsy Land, Gypsy Land, Gypsy Land ..."
- No. 3 - Duett - Bruce and Betty - "Now, what if I tarried till someone got married to you? ... Poor she! And likewise supposing some fellow proposing won you? ..."
- No. 4 - Duett - Duke and Constance - "What is there in love, to thrill until it seems divine? ... If I knew, I'd tell you. What is there in love that courses thro'..."
- No. 5 - Wedding Bells Chorus - "Sweetest of creatures, the neatest of preachers lives near in a dear little church ... Oh my, what a lover you'd sigh to discover..."
- No. 6 - Finale Act I - "What was that noise! What was that noise! It sounded like a terrible explosion. Was it a bomb, if so where from? ..."
ACT II - Street in Zurach, in front of the Palace.
- No. 7 - Opening Chorus - "Royalty with dignity will condescend its smile to lend to Coronation day. While people of the nation pay ... in a princely way..."
- No. 8 - Song - Leska - "There are lovers in Bohemia who can love the best. There are moonbeams in Bohemia that outshine the rest..."
- No. 8a - Entrance
- No. 9 - Consequences - Herman von Schnellenvein and Show Girls - "Let each person take a paper, write a gentleman's name. Fold it, pass it, that's your caper..."
- No. 10 - Song - Herman and Chorus - "Taken from the Isle of Zinga Loo, captured by a mercenary crew, sold into a circus where they work us and they work us..."
- No. 11 - Song - Napoleon - "When first I met the fair Lizette, down in the Quartier Latin, she whispered low 'I love you so, you are a beautiful man'..."
- No. 11a - Exit
- No. 12 - Song - Constance and Chorus - "Oh silver moon in the sky, you look as lonely as I; you're a sentimental moon, tell me why, with all your splendor..."
- No. 13 - Aeroplane Duet - Bruce and Betty - "There's the blue of the skies in your bright starry eyes, and you smile like a sunbeam in June..."
- No. 14 - The Coronation - "All hail, the Duke, who soon will be his own right royal majesty, to reign alone upon the throne of Zurach, our fair nation..."
- No. 15 - Finale Act II - "Waltz me away to the rhyming and chiming of merry wedding bells. Oh, what a treasure of pleasure each measure of melody foretells..."
- External Link
- Vocal Score at IMSLP
Page modified 24 January 2017