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A Yankee Tourist is a musical comedy by Richard Harding Davis. The lyrics are by Wallace Irwin and the music was composed by Alfred George Robyn. It was produced by Mr. Henry W. Savage at the Astor Theatre, New York, on 9 November 1907 and transferred to the Grand Opera House, New York, nine days later.
Dramatis Personæ
| COPELAND SCHUYLER, of New York | Raymond Hitchcock | ||
| KIRKE WARREN (War Correspondent of the "Republic") | Harry Stone | ||
| MR. HEWITT (War Correspondent) | Wallace Beery | ||
| CAPTAIN ANSTRUTHER (War Correspondent of the London Times) | Phillip Smalley | ||
| MR. GRIGGS (War Correspondent of the London Imperialist) | Herbert Cawthorn | ||
| BILLY ASHE (Manager for the "Republic" at Athens) | E. R. Phillips | ||
| CAPTAIN O'MALLEY (Surgeon, Foreign Legion) | Walter Lawrence | ||
| COLONEL OSTAH (Turkish Army) | E. Percy Parsons | ||
| CAPTAIN MOUZAFFER (Turkish Army) | Frederick Corbin | ||
| CROWN PRINCE OF GREECE | E. B. Tilton | ||
| FIRST OFFICER (Transport to Volo) | Fred Johnstone | ||
| FIRST OFFICER (Transport to Constantinople) | Harold White | ||
| SERGEANT | O. J. Van Asse | ||
| BOATSWAIN | Victor Clarke | ||
| CAPTAIN ZONYA (Foreign Legion) | Herman Ruepke | ||
| HERR MULLER (Proprietor Hotel Angleterre) | M. W. Rale | ||
| INNKEEPER | Edmund Bates | ||
| GRACE WHITNEY | Flora Zabelle | ||
| BLANCHE BAILEY | Helen Hale | ||
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| CHIEF STEWARD | Eva Fallon | ||
| A GREEK GIRL | Ethel Cramer | ||
ACT I - Hotel Angleterre, Athens.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Here we are a-taking tea, as cozily as well can be; not a tho't of shell or shot, for dreadful war disturbs us not..."
- No. 2 - "Glad Hand Girl" Song (soloist unspecified) - "Gee! you ought to like me best, for I come from out the west, and I love the human race, Whoop-la! ..."
- No. 3 - Song - Grace Whitney and Men - "In childhood's happy hour, when story books read true, when knighthood was in flower, and there were fairies too..."
- No. 4 - Song - Copeland and Chorus - "I'm a lucky Yankee Rabbit, and I've got the trotting habit, on the liner off for China, or from Maine to Mexico..."
- No. 5 - Finale Act I - "Show us the man who did the deed, reveal to us our victim. We're goin' to jab and carve and stab the man, for we have picked him..."
ACT II - The Wharf at Piraeus.
- No. 6 - Opening Chorus - "Roll, barrel, roll! ... Oh, forty days and forty nights a-workin' on the wharf ... Roll, barrel, roll! ..."
- No. 7 - Trio - Grace, Eva and Blanche - "Other girls may treat you spiteful, frightful; others may be cruel and cold. I am neither haughty..."
- No. 8 - Song - Sybil - "The girl who's to the manner born, whose blood is running blue, she never makes the rude mistakes that other maidens do..."
- No. 9 - Song - Captain O'Malley and Legion - "Oh, Irish lad, your Irish dad has taught you in his day. Shenannigan or Brannigan, he never ran away..."
- No. 10 - Principals' Ensemble - "The trouble with the most of us is that we love fight and fuss, at little things we snarl and cuss and keep our tempers sore..."
- No. 11 - Finale Act II - "The dogs of war are growling, they're goin' to bark and bite! The dogs of war are prowling, preparing for a fight..."
ACT III - Reception Rooms, Shepard's Hotel.
- No. 12 - Opening Chorus - "Allah is good to hardihood, and the faithful who do his will; he bids today 'Go forth and slay', so we go to the fight to kill..."
- No. 13 - Song and Chorus (soloist unspecified) - "The morning, they say, is the hour when the lark makes music in the sky..."
- No. 14 - Finale Act III - "Ah, dog of war, when screaming shots and bullets swiftly go by, ah, I hope the fray won't get so hot you'll get the hydrophobia..."
MIDI Files
- External Links
- Score of "Wouldn't you like to have me for a sweetheart?" (Other girls may treat you spiteful) at the University of Oregon.
- Score of Selectin from A Yankee Tourist in the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection.
Page modified 21 May 2017