Some Time is a musical play written by Rida Johnson Young and composed by Rudolf Friml. It was produced for the first time at the Globe Theatre, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on August 26th. 1918. It transferred to the Shubert Theatre, New York, on 4 October of the same year and from there to the Casino Theatre where it closed on 7 June 1919 after 283 perfomances.
Dramatis Personæ
See the Internet Broadway Database for the Cast List.
ACT I
Scene 1 | - Stage of a New York Theatre (present time). |
Scene 2 | - Enid's dressing-room (present time). |
Scene 3 | - Room in actors' boarding-house (five years earlier). |
Scene 4 | - Enid's dressing-room (present time). |
Scene 5 | - Garden of Racing Club, Buenos Aires (four years previous to Scene 1). |
- No. 1 - Overture
- No. 2 - Song and Dance - Mayme - "I'm getting awful fed up on the way this world is run..."
- No. 3 - Song - Vaughn and Girls - "I never fail in picking peaches, for I've an eye, a searching eye..."
- No. 4 - Song - Enid and Girls - "Longer than life, stronger than fate, so will my love endure..."
- No. 5 - Song - Sylvia, Dick and Girls - "When the world is bright your heart is light, because the sun is shining..."
- No. 6 - Repeat of No. 4 as Duet - Enid and Dick - "Longer than life, stronger than fate..."
- No. 7a - Spanish Maid Song - Argentine Singer - "Come where skies are glowing above a southern sea..."
- No. 7b - Argentine Dance
- No. 8 - Song - Sylvia and Chorus - "Take care! Don't start that little tune, it will haunt you so! ..."
- No. 9 - Song - Loney - "I'm so glad I came to Argentine! These Spanish women set my head swimmin'..."
- No. 10 - Finale Act I - "When the world is bright your heart is light, because the sun is shining..."
ACT II
Scene 1 | - Enid's dressing-room (present time). |
Scene 2 | - Roof Garden of Gotham Theatre (a year previous to Scene 1). |
Scene 3 | - Enid's dressing-room (present time). |
Scene 4 | - "Somewhere." |
- No. 11 - Song - Sylvia, with George and Chorus - "Beautiful night, oh, what a beautiful night!"
- No. 12 - Little Dance - Music Box
- No. 13 - Song - Enid and Chorus - "I had a little doll, a little rag-bag doll, I guess it was a poor old thing..."
- No. 14 - Specialty Dance
- No. 15 - Song - Mayme - "I was born a scamp, meant to be a vamp! ..."
- No. 16 - Finale Act II
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