 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Velvet Lady is a musical comedy with music by Victor Herbert and book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. It opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, on 3 February 1919.
Dramatis Personæ
| PARKS | Ernest Torrence |
| ROSE DOT VIOLET MIGNONETTE TULIP HYACINTH LILY DAISY PANSY |
} } } } } } } } } |
(The Bridesmaids) | { { { { { { { { { |
Una Fleming Teddie Hudson Janet McIlwaine Lucine Paula Florence Crips Dolly Alwyn Helen Borden Mignon Reed Tess Mayer |
| OTTILIE (a Bride) | Marie Flynn |
| SUSIE | Georgie O'Ramey |
| MRS. WINNACKER (Auntie) | Eleanor Gordon |
| BUBBLES (Ottilie's sister) | Minerva Coverdale |
| NICHOLAS KING | Jed Prouty |
| NED PEMBROKE | Alfred Gerrard |
| GEORGE HOWELL | Ray Raymond |
| SERGEANT | Daniel Sullivan |
| MOONEY (a new cop) | Eddie Dowling |
| VERA VERNON | Fay Marbe |
| MRS. PEMBROKE | Eda Von Buelow |
ACT I - Library in Howell's House, Riverside Drive. (Late afternoon)
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Merry little bridesmaids, here we are again! ..."
- No. 2 - Song - Ottilie and Girls - "When in love, a man is neither blind nor is stupid ... and yet they tell us love is blind..."
- No. 3 - Scandal Duet - Susie and Parks - "I greatly fear there's something queer about this man and wife..."
- No. 4 - Duet - Bubbles and Ned - "When I was but a tiny miss, a little soldier lad gave me my first and only kiss..."
- No. 5 - Quartet - Ned, George, Bubbles and Ottilie - "You start to spend a honeymoon, how can you tell the ending? ..."
- No. 6 - Quartet - George, King, Sergeant and Mooney, with Chorus of Police - "The ladies love a soldier or a sailor..."
- No. 6a - Entr'Acte I
ACT II - Living Hall in Howell's House (Early the Same Evening).
- No. 7 - Opening Scene - Girls - "Way down in far Yucatan, a dusky damsel with Mantilla and fan and dainty cigarrito..."
- No. 8 - Song - George and Girls - "At night when I have been dining, and not too wisely been "wine-ing"..."
- No. 9 - Song - Ned and Girls - "Now though I may be young in years ... You are! you are! ..."
- No. 10 - Duet - Mooney and Parks - "Now, logic is really a science exact, we all must admit there's no doubt of it..."
- No. 11 - Song - George - "Let us try to forget! Let us stifle regret! For mem'ries do not pay..."
- No. 12 - Song - Susie - "I've worked in a whole lot of places as maid, since I came from the west..."
- No. 13 - Finale Act II - "Oh, we begin to be greatly in doubt again; you got him in but he may have got out again! ..."
- No. 13a - Entr'Acte II
ACT III - Living Room in Howell's House (An Hour Later).
- No. 14 - Opening - Bubbles and Girls - "Ding! Dong! Merry wedding bells, ringing out, singing out songs of gladness! ..."
- No. 15 - Quartette - George, Ned, Ottilie, Bubbles and Girls - "It's nearly time we had another new dance! ..."
- No. 16 - Song and Dance - Vera - "Oh, that Spanish vaquero, he surely was there! Oh, he smiled at me in the Presidio! ..."
- No. 17 - Finale Ultimo - "Take life and love as you find them! Ev'rything then is worth while..."
MIDI Files
- External Link
- Vocal Score at the Library of Congress
Page modified 28 May 2017