Naughty Nancy is a musical comedy written by Oliver Bath and composed by Ralph E. Lyon and Walter Davidson which opened at the Savoy Theatre, London on 2 September 1902.
Dramatis Personæ
JOSIAH SLIGGS | Mr. Charles E. Stevens |
EARL OF AYCON | Mr. Cairns James |
VISCOUNT VALENTINE (his Son) | Mr. Kenneth Douglas |
MAURICE LESTRANGE | Mr. John M. Hay |
MICHAEL MOLLOY (Inspector of Police) | Mr. John T. MacCallum |
A WAITER | Mr. J. W. Brighten |
A TAILOR | Mr. Harry Davis |
MARTHA SLIGGS | Miss Gladys Homfrey |
LADY BARBARA DAWN | Miss Mollie Lowell |
NEPHELE NOGGS (an American Widow) | Miss Eva Kelly |
MISS PRINGLE (President of a Woman's League) | Miss Davies Webster |
MAISIE OLIVE ALICE VIOLET EMILY |
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(Schoolgirls) | { { { { { |
Miss Olive Leyton Miss Claire Rickards Miss Susie Raymonde Miss Maisie Lovell Miss Ethel Kenyon |
ROSALIND BELINDA |
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Miss Louie Edmonds Miss Nellie Black |
NANCY | Miss Kitty Loftus |
ACT I - Eden House, a School near London.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus of Girls and Mistresses - "School girls we in evil plight, living in this garden green..."
- No. 2 - Song - Nancy and Chorus - "Now as I sat in the garden one day..." (three verses)
- No. 3 - Duet - Lady Barbara and Maurice - "My love's a star at heaven's brink, clear shining from the vault that spans it..."
- No. 4 - Song - Sliggs - "Silly people say that woman is not what she used to be, it's the old, old game! ..." (three verses)
- No. 5 - Duet - Nephele Noggs and Lord Aycon - "The bluest of the blue blood flows through all my veins..." (three verses)
- No. 6 - Song - Nancy - "I never loved a dear gazelle, because, you know, I never tried..." (three verses)
- No. 7 - Song - Valentine - "Our Percy is a sportsman if he's nothing else beside..." (four verses)
- No. 8 - Song - Ten Girls - "Ten little chorus girls tripping in a line..."
- No. 9 - Quintet - Nancy, Lady Barbara, Nephele, Maurice and Valentine - "If you've got a desire to cut a dash..."
- No. 10 - Song - Nancy and Chorus - "He's the pick of Tommy Atkins in his prime..." (three verses)
- No. 11 - Finale Act II - Lady Barbara and Chorus - "Goodbye, Nancy, promise to come back soon..."
ACT II - The Empire Hotel, Northumberland Avenue.
- No. 12 - Opening Chorus - "Guests are we from foreign lands, come from far to London town..."
- No. 13 - Song - Valentine and Chorus - "Now I'm never a great believer in fate, and I'm not in the least superstitious..."
- No. 14 - Song - Lady Barbara - "When a maiden goes a-fishing, and to make a 'bag' she's wishing, then beware, little fish..."
- No. 15 - Operatic Duet - Nancy and Sliggs - "How didst thou dare, base man, me hapless to deceive? Hast thou no heart?..."
- No. 16 - Quartet - Nancy, Aycon, Valentine & Sliggs - "Now let us together discuss as to whether you can or cannot be he.."
- No. 17 - Song - Maurice - "Ah! chide me not for loving thee for, oh! I love thee well..."
- No. 18 - Song - Lord Aycon - "Now diplomacy's a virtue that will stand you in good stead..."
- No. 19 - Song - Nancy & Chorus - "Has it ever been your lot to hear about a band that has only had a lady for instructor? ..."
- No. 20 - Song - Michael Molloy - "Oh, I'm a rollicking Irish boy, oh! and my name it is Michael Molloy..." (seven verses)
- No. 21 - Song - Nephele Noggs & Chorus - "Of course you know a song about a coon called a Rose, or a Lily, or a Sue..."
- No. 22 - Finale Act II - "Goodbye, Nancy, promise to come back soon..."
- External Link
- About the show at Newcastle University Gilbert and Sullivan Society
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