Kitty Grey is a musical comedy adapted from MM. Mars & Hennequin's Les Fétards by J.S. Pigott with lyrics by Adrian Ross and music by Augustus Barratt and Howard Talbot, with additional numbers by Lionel Monckton, Paul Rubens, and Bernard Rolt. It was first produced in Bristol on 27 August 1900. After an extensive provincial tour, the show opened at the Apollo Theatre, London, on 7 September 1901.

Dramatis Personæ

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ACT I   -   Biarritz.

• Evie Greene in Kitty Grey

  No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Beautiful Biarritz stands on the shores of the mighty Atlantic..."
• No. 2 - Song - Edith, with Baron & Plantagenet - "The world and all that's in it will only last a minute..."
• No. 3 - King's Entrance - Chorus, with Karl & Fritz - "Welcome to His Majesty of Illyria! ..."
• No. 4 - Song - King, with Chorus - "Tho' it's nice to be born to a crown..."
  (three verses)
• No. 5 - Duet - Edith and Jack - "When I go into your room for goodnight, dear, I must grope about in gloom..."
• No. 6 - Song - Jack - "One little head with heaps of hair weaving a crown above it..."
• No. 7 - Finale to Act I - "Welcome His Kingly grace of Illyria! ..."

ACT II   -   Kitty Grey's Dressing Room.

• No. 8 - Chorus of Girls, with soloists - "When the star is on the stage and the lime is on the star..."
• No. 9 - Song - Kitty - "Ruby lips and rosy cheeks, hues with health assorting..."
• No. 10 - Chorus and Scene - "Oh, Kitty, just think what fun, for now that the piece is done..."
• No. 11 - Intermezzo, opening Scene II
• No. 12 - Song - Kitty & Chorus - "Mademoiselle Pirouette -- really her name was Suzette..."
• No. 13 - Song - Edith, with chorus - "There was a time when to your arms you'd fondly take me..."
• No. 14 - Finale Act II - "Where's our host gone tonght?  This is most impolite! ..."

ACT III

• No. 15 - Edith - "When a man goes wooing, he's hard to understand..."
• No. 16 - Duet - Kitty & Jack - "We play'd at love with kisses and tears and laughter..."
• No. 17 - Quartette - Saidie, Plantagenet, Jack & Edith - "I was a lofty lady, looking on joy as shady..."
• No. 18 - Song - Kitty, with Chorus - "I'm nothing more or less than Kitty Grey, just very ordinary Kitty Grey..."
• No. 19 - Finale - "With head held so, you trip and go, and up you throw a pointed toe..."

Addendum.

• No. 20 - Extra Song - Mrs. Bright & Chorus - "When I was young as you girls are, I was famous as a circus star..."

Nos. 1, 10, 11, 12 & 14 were composed by Howard Talbot, Nos. 6 & 20 by Lionel Monckton and
Nos. 13, 15 & 18 were written and composed by Paul A. Rubens.

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