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This list was compiled by readers of "Precious Nonsens", the newsletter of the Midwestern Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
Scene 1
OPENING DANCE:
- The Mikado, Opening Act 1.
- Trial By Jury, "Hark, the hour of Ten is sounding".
- The Mikado, "So please you, sir, we much regret" ("But youth,
of course, must have its fling. . ."). - Patience, "The Soldiers of our Queen".
- Trial by Jury, "He will treat us with awe" ("Trial-la- law").
- The Gondoliers, "Good Morrow, Pretty Maids" (orchestral accompaniment).
- Trial By Jury, "Hark, the hour of Ten is sounding".
- The Mikado, "So please you, sir, we much regret".
POLL'S DANCE AND PAS DE DEUX:
- The Gondoliers, introduction to "Here is a Case Unprecedented".
- Princess Ida, Introduction to "The Woman of the Wisest Wit".
- The Gondoliers, "Here is a Case Unprecedented".
- Patience, "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We" ("Go, breaking heart").
- The Gondoliers, "Here is a Case Unprecedented" and Patience,"Twenty Lovesick Maidens We" in counterpoint.
- The Gondoliers, "Here is a Case Unprecedented".
- Princess Ida, End of "The Woman of the Wisest Wit".
BELAYE'S SOLO:
- Cox and Box, "Rataplan".
- Patience, "In a Doleful Train".
- Cox and Box, "Rataplan (...rataplan, I'm a military man. . .)"
- Cox and Box, "Rataplan" (second appearance in the work, when it is the only lyric).
- Cox and Box, conclusion of overture.
PAS DE TROIS:
- The Mikado, Introduction to "Braid the Raven Hair".
- The Pirates of Penzance, "How Beautifully Blue the Sky".
- The Pirates of Penzance, "Did ever maiden wake from dream".
- The Pirates of Penzance, "How Beautifully Blue the Sky".
- Ruddigore, "If somebody there chanced to be". (Refrain)
- The Pirates of Penzance, "How Beautifully Blue the Sky".
- The Pirates of Penzance, "Did ever maiden wake from dream".
FINALE:
- Patience, "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We".
- The Pirates of Penzance, "The Pirates! Oh Despair!" (Introduction).
- Ruddigore, "Deny the Falsehood, Robin, as you should. . ." (Act I Finale).
- Iolanthe, "To You I yield my heart so rich. . ."(Act I Finale).
- Patience, Overture/"Oh list, while we a love confess".
- Iolanthe, "To You I yield my heart so rich".
- Patience, Overture (end).
Scene 2
POLL'S SOLO:
- Iolanthe, Invocation. Transition to
JASPER'S SOLO:
- Iolanthe, Overture (transition between "Welcome to Our Hearts Again" and "He Loves").
- Princess Ida, Overture ("Oh Goddess Wise" to the end).
Scene 3
BELAYE'S SOLO AND SAILOR'S DRILL:
- Princess Ida, "When Anger Spreads His Wing".
- Princess Ida, "For a Month to Dwell in a Dungeon Cell".
- The Gondoliers, "Two Kings of Undue Pride Bereft".
- Ruddigore, "When a Man Has Been a Naughty Baronet"/Theme from the original overture/Act II Finale.
POLL'S SOLO:
- Trial by Jury, "That She is Reeling is Plain to See".
- Iolanthe, (motif)
- Patience, Overture (before the music for "Turn oh Turn in this Direction").
- Princess Ida, "The World is But a Broken Toy".
ENTRY OF BELAYE WITH BLANCHE AS BRIDE:
- The Yeomen of the Guard, Flourish for Fairfax's Entrance to claim his Bride.
- Trial by Jury, Entry of the Bridesmaids.
- Iolanthe, First act Finale (the Peers' "Oh Horror" and Fairies' response).
- Iolanthe, "Once Again Thy Vows are Broken" ("Bow Thy Head to Destiny").
- Iolanthe, First act "Horror".
- Iolanthe, "Once Again Thy Vows are Broken".
- Trial by Jury, "I Love Him, I Love Him, with Fervour Unceasing".
- Iolanthe, "Go Away Madam" (First Act Finale).
RECONCILIATION:
- Ruddigore, "The Battle's Roar is Over" (from Overture).
FINALE:
- The Mikado, Introduction to "The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away".
- Trial by Jury, "Oh Joy Unbounded".
- H.M.S. Pinafore, "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore".
- Patience, Overture ("So Go to Him, and Say to Him").
- Princess Ida, "Gently, Gently. . ." ("We've Learned that Prickly Cactus").
- The Pirates of Penzance/Thespis, "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain ("Let us Gaily Tread the Measure").
- The Pirates of Penzance, "Sighing Softly to the River" (in counterpoint to above)
- Patience, Overture ("So Go to Him, and Say to Him").
- Trial by Jury, "Oh Joy Unbounded".
- Overture Di Ballo, Galop theme.
- The Yeomen of the Guard, Overture (Tower Theme)
- Patience, Overture.
- H.M.S. Pinafore, Overture/Ruddigore, Overture (very end).
- The Mikado, First act Finale (very end).
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