Madame Sherry is a musical play in three acts with libretto by C. E. Hands, lyrics by Adrian Ross and music by Hugo Felix which opened at the Apollo Theatre, London, on 23 December 1904.

Dramatis Personæ

Musical Numbers

ACT I   -   Sherry's Rooms.

• No. 1 - Introduction - Chorus of Tradespeople - "We're the tradesmen coming in, always as the months begin, each with a little account too! ..."
• No. 2 - Chorus of Bohemians, Students and Models - "We're Bohemians gay and clever, hi! hi! hi! hi!  Comrades true who will not sever!  Hi! hi! hi! hi! ..."
• No. 3 - Song - Andrew - "I wrote to uncle: It is pleasant dreaming of home and married life, only my income just at present would not quite support a wife."
• No. 3a - Exit - "We're Bohemians gay and clever, hi! hi! hi! hi!  Comrades true who will not sever!  Hi! hi! hi! hi! ..."
• No. 4 - Duet - Mistigrette and Leonard - "Mistigrette!  Leonard!  Mistigrette!  Leonard!  I love you!  You love me!  Mistigrette!  Leonard!  I love you day and night! ..."
• No. 5 - Song - Pepita and Men - "I have a heart that's fiery, very!  For I'm Spanish and I'm hot!  And in my veins runs special sherry if you rouse me, so do not! ..."
• No. 6 - Quartet - MacSherry, Barbara, Mistigrette and Leonard - "The sight of ships, however still, will make me feel extremely ill, for if I were on board..."
• No. 7 - Finale Act I - "Is there a bliss in the whole creation, free from all impure alloy?  It is the sacred exhilaration found in our beautiful family joy!  Ah!..."

ACT II   -   A Room in a Restaurant.

• No. 8 - Opening Chorus and Song - Kossuth - "Far, far off beyond sea and land, where the Danube rolls its mighty waters, there, oh there, is my gipsy band..."
• No. 9 - Song - Leonard - "Love has now the sole control through the whole of my soul;  I can think of her alone, nothing more!  All my former loves I must own..."
• No. 11 - Duet - Catherine and Joseph - "At Torino on the market (sulla piazza) I was quite the belle (la più bella ragazza!) when my father sat and drank Chianti..."
• No. 12 - Song - Mistigrette and Chorus - "There are many styles of dressing smartly;  Ancient Briton girls were painted partly;   Africans assume 'the altogether'..."
• No. 13 - Trios - MacSherry, Catherine, Joseph, Mistigrette, Leonard and Andrew - "Here I can be hidden, and I quite expect, anything forbidden I can soon detect..."
• No. 14 - Duet - Barbara and Andrew - "Ah! cousin dear, this moment I have seen it;  you are the hob, the kitchen fire, you know.  (What?)  No, of course, I didn't..."
• No. 15 - Finale Act II - "Come on, and we will see if you stand up to me, I scorn to turn and flee.  What will upshot be?  If you could but agree to leave the case..."

ACT III   -   First Floor, Terminus Hotel.

• No. 16 - Nocturne - Octet - "Good night!  Around us closes night, that scatters stars above, bringing visions and dreams of roses..."
• No. 17 - Intermezzo
• No. 18 - Song - Ernestine and Chorus - "The moonbeams were bright one beautiful night, on sea and esplanade, and out on the pier with nobody near..."
• No. 19 - Duet - Andrew and Barbara - "If trouble should come back again, and clouds are looking black again, of getting a wetting you need have no fear! ..."
• No. 20 - Song - Andrew - "I'm always, I confess, enamour'd more or less!  My heart is ever tender and ready to surrender until it makes me woo a little girl, or two!"
• No. 21 - Scene - Barbara, Mistigrette, Pepita, Catherine and MacSherry - "Not for any money would we miss such a very funny jest as this.  If we're successful..."
• No. 22 - Finale Act III - "Come to the meadow, the moonlight is fair, youp-là, youp-là, Catari, Catarina!  I'll play the mandoline, dance with me there! ..."

Addenda   -   Extra numbers written and composed by Paul A. Rubens.

• No. 23 - Song - Barbara - "A snail once liv'd inside a shell, right inside a shell!  She wouldn't move, not even if you rang the front door bell..."
• No. 24 - Song - Andrew and Chorus - "Oh! Sarah was a girl you know, a little bit short-sighted, who found the streets of London so extremely badly lighted..."
• No. 25 - Duet - Barbara and Andrew - "Jack and Jill went up the hill, in search of married life ... Quite a model husband he, and she a perfect wife..."
• No. 26 - Sextet - Mistigrette, Leonard, Pepita, Andrew, Joseph and Barbara - "Oh! what a lucky thing it is that old MacSherry's gone! ..."

MIDI Files

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Vocal Score at IMSLP

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