Jerome Kern The Cabaret Girl The Ohio Light Opera

Michael Borowitz CONDUCTOR Steven Daigle ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Cabaret Girl Music...... PROGRAM NOTES...... MICHAEL MILLER Lyrics...P.G. Wodehouse, George Grossmith Jerome Kern was born in New York City into a pros- Conductor...... Michael Borowitz perous, middle class Jewish-American family on Stage Director...... Steven Daigle January 27, 1885 (Mozart’s birthday). Encouraged as a young boy by his mother to take up music, he wrote The Ohio Light Opera his first stage show, The Melodious Menu, while a Steven Daigle, Artistic Director student at Newark High School. Upon his return from CAST: music study in Germany in 1903, Kern published his Marilynn...... Lindsay O’Neil first song, “At the Casino,” and went to work with Jim...... Stefan Gordon music publisher Max Dreyfus at T.B. Harms, a company Gripps...... Jacob Allen in which (thanks to an inheritance) he soon thereafter Gravvins...... Anthony Buck became a partner. Lady Harrogate...... Julie Wright on Broadway in those days was Lord Harrogate...... Ben Robinson sustained primarily by imports of European Effie...... Ashly Evans and musical comedies, generally British or Viennese. To Quibb...... Paul Hopper make these shows more palatable to American audi- Ada...... Sahara Glasener-Boles ences, the scores were typically embellished with one Lily...... Karla Hughes or two newly written American-style songs. Kern’s Harry Zona...... Jon Gerhard earliest contribution to Broadway came in 1904 with April...... Natalie Easter two such interpolations for a British import called An March...... Kelly Dainton English Daisy. The next year he achieved his first hit Feloosi...... Gary Moss song, “How’d you like to spoon with me?” inserted Miss Simmons...... Tania Mandzy into the Broadway version of The Earl and the Girl. It Miss Witmore...... Amanda Dahlin was not until 1911 and the Broadway show La Belle Vicar...... Jarvis Wyche Paree (featuring the debut of Al Jolson) that Kern first Housekeeper...... Holly White got billing as a principal composer. CHORUS: In 1914 he contributed six numbers to The Girl Chelsea Basler, Amanda Dahlin, Kelly Dain- from Utah, another British import. With one of these ton, Marten Dollinger, Robin Farnsley, Carissa songs, “They didn’t believe me,” Kern single-handedly, Kett, Amanda Kingston, Joe Lenehan, Shane and overnight, propelled American musical theater Kingston Magargal, Rhea Miller, Philip McLeod, firmly into the twentieth century, freeing it from the Erica Post, Rebecca Spence, Todd Strange, European bonds that had governed its development Allison Toth, Jarvis Wyche. since the early days of John Philip Sousa (El Capitan) and Reginald de Koven (Robin Hood). Kern wrote The Cabaret Girl at the suggestion Between 1915 and 1919, in a series of of London producer George Grossmith (the son of shows (Nobody Home, Very Good Eddie, Oh, the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan interpreter of Boy! and Oh, Lady! Lady!!) written for the the same name) who, teaming with famed literary Princess Theatre on 39th Street, Kern defined figure P. G. Wodehouse, provided the book and and re-defined his concept of an American lyrics. The show opened at London’s Winter musical tradition in which the storyline revolves Garden Theater on September 18, 1922, following not around dukes and princesses in exotic in the footsteps of its highly successful production locales, but rather everyday folks and their of . It is no coincidence that The Cabaret Girl’s personal and romantic entanglements. female lead is named Marilynn Morgan—Broad- Over the next decade or so, in shows like way’s original Sally was Marilyn Miller, who had just Sally (1920) and Sunny (1925), Kern increas- recently dropped the second “n” from her name. ingly added rhythmic and harmonic sophis- The show ran for 361 performances and show- tication to his melodic well. In 1927 he cases both the unparalleled wit and sentimentality collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on of Wodehouse and the inexhaustible melodic , which in its integration of music genius of Jerome Kern. and drama and deft positioning between the high-handedness of and the frivolity of the song and dance musical comedies of earlier years, represents the first true American musical play. Kern continued to explore the bounds of musical theatre—both the operetta and musical comedy varieties—on shows like The Cat and the Fiddle (1931), Music in the Air (1932), Roberta (1933) and Very Warm for May (1939). But his most lasting contributions from the final years of his life were the new songs he wrote both for film versions of his own shows and for original films. At the time of his death, he had agreed to write the music for a new show called Annie Oakley (eventually retitled as Annie Get Your Gun) that Rodgers and Hammerstein were producing. Jerome Kern (1885-1945)

■ 3 ■ FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR much-deserved rebirth for an appreciative For more than 30 years The Ohio Light Opera audience. This CD set will hopefully give the has been dedicated to producing, promoting and operetta aficionado a taste of what makes this preserving the best of the traditional operetta company unique. repertoire. In any summer season, close to 20,000 The support of the College of Wooster, its patrons come to hear and see more than sixty community and nearly 500,000 patrons who performances of seven productions on the have championed the company's dedication to beautiful campus of The College of Wooster in operetta have given OLO a reputation that Ohio. These shows offer the operetta fan a little reaches internationally. In no small way, Albany of everything: a well-known and lesser-known Records has added to the company’s success. Gilbert and Sullivan, a Viennese operetta, a The company and the operetta art form are French operetta, an American operetta and a indebted to John Ostendorf and Albany for revival of a long-forgotten work that is given a their commitment. Steven Daigle

FROM THE PRODUCER Every summer for more than a decade, I’ve work by OLO’s Steve Daigle and Michael Miller looked forward to my trip out “west,” to the and the generosity of the Kern estate, we at still-surprising Ohio Light Opera, and its season last have the chance to present one of Jerome of musical delights. We’ve recorded a host of Kern’s brilliant shows. It was a blast to work on. brilliant musicals, but thanks to the exhaustive John Ostendorf

The Cabaret Girl: Act III finale: “Dancing Time is any old time for me!” ■ 4 ■ impossible.You’d better write. (Two The Cabaret Girl customers enter.) Are you being attended ACT I—Offices of Music Publishers Gripps to, madam? and Gravvins, London LADY HARROGATE OVERTURE & OPENING CD I, Track 1 Not very. Have you “Soft Caresses” by CHORUS Track 2 Ivan Othello? (Shopgirls reading music manuscripts.) EFFIE “Love song is ended, Let me see. I think we have one copy Fires which we tended left. (calls off) Miss Simmons? Have left not a single ember. LADY HARROGATE Love’s flowers once cherished One copy will be quite sufficient. Long since have perished EFFIE In snows of December. Will that be all you require, madam? Yet though it die, LADY HARROGATE Lady Harrogate (Julie Wright) Leaves echoes sighing ‘Remember!’” That will be all for today. Will you put HARROGATE Though Fate may sever, this on my account? Lady Harrogate. That’s pretty seldom. You don’t get old We’ll hear them forever, you and I.” EFFIE (looks down at her desk) Jim up in this merry village unless he can (A customer plays Chopin at the piano. Yes, m’lady. Lady Harrogate, there is a help it. Well, good morning. The girls hum along.) Ah... message come through on the tele- LADY HARROGATE Chopin at one, Chopin at two, phone for your ladyship from a Mr. Oh, my dear boy, I had nearly forgotten Chopin at half-past three! James Paradene. the tickets. Oh, can’t you give the man a rest? LORD HARROGATE HARROGATE We wish he would disappear, Oh, James! Oh, yes, for tonight. Miss, what’s a Nobody wants him here. LADY HARROGATE good show to go and see? I know Top We find that kind of tune too slow. Oh yes, my nephew. He was to have to Bottom by heart. We’ve seen Roman We’re tired of Nevin, met us here by appointment at noon. Candles and Round in Bogey... Debussy, and Chauminade. EFFIE EFFIE Well, he is detained, but asks me to And for a change we want that lively, We have the best seats for everything. Rough, stuff inform your ladyship that he will be here at twelve-thirty, unless you direct That has got some zip and go! SONG Track 4 him elsewhere. (They dance and laugh; a phone rings.) EFFIE, SHOPGIRLS LADY HARROGATE Just now the season’s at its height Oh, no. We have some other shopping DIALOGUE Track 3 With new productions every night. to do and will return. Please ask him to EFFIE (a secetary, answers) Each theatre’s crammed from stall to pit wait for us here. Yes? This is Gripps and Gravvins. Who For every show’s a hit, EFFIE do you want? Mr. Gravvins? I’ll see. Who And you can get a proper view, Oh, certainly, m’lady. Mr Paradene is a is that speaking? Sir Edward Who? Sir No matter where you sit. great friend of Mr. Gripps and often Edward Elgar? Well... Have you an You want the best seats. comes here when he is in town. appointment? No? Sorry. I’m afraid quite We have ‘em. ■ 5 ■ Not one bad ‘un, MISS WITMORE All were praised by Archie Haddon. Uh...in your hand, sir. Plays with a bed scene... GRIPPS (looks at the music he’s holding) Plays where wives behave What? this... Mugginzi? As wives should never, never do, MISS WITMORE Also plays nice-minded girls The gentleman thought if he put an “i” Take their mothers to. at the end, it might... You want... (They laugh and cavort as GRIPPS (turns away, exasperated) the Harrogates leave the shop.) Oh. Run away! I’m busy. EFFIE (as groans are heard) DIALOGUE Track 5 Good morning, Mr. Gravvins. Mr. GRIPPS (enters with some music) Gripps was asking after you. Miss Simmons! GRAVVINS (staggers in, hung-over) Effie (Ashly Evans) and the Shopgirls MISS SIMMONS Tell him I’m dead! For all the shows in town. Sir! EFFIE (doesn’t look up from her desk) Tickets here we’ve got for you GRIPPS Yes, Mr. Gravvins. For any play you want to view, Send this to the engraver. GRAVVINS Sad or funny! MISS SIMMONS Speak softly, child, for I am not well Take your pick and pay your money. I can’t read the composer’s name, sir. today. I am conscious of a strange Plays with a bed scene, French farces “M-U-G-G...” weakness... That made the censor frown. GRIPPS GRIPPS (comes forward) Plays by Barrie, plays by Milne Mugginzi. Italian. A charming little Hello. Where were you last night? And all extremely good! Neapolitan ballad by Mugginzi. Full of GRAVVINS (wildly) Plays where people stab themselves color, my child. A gem. The chiaroscuro It’s a lie! And where you wish they would. of the opening bars, the nuance in the GRIPPS You want the best seats... diminuendo and the vigor of the forte. What do you mean by coming into a We’ve plays about romantic crooks, The words are a little naif, but the tout respectable place of business looking Plays made out of well-known books. ensemble a masterpiece. Mugginzi... like a half-squashed black beetle! We’ve Eastern dramas where they dress the name is new to me. (Another GRAVVINS In strings of beads and less. secretary enters.) Yes? Sir, you are bordering on the personal. And every play upon our list’s MISS WITMORE GRIPPS A genuine success. Oh, sir, Mr. Muggins has called to know Let me tell you, once and for all... There’s His Majesty’s, The Queen’s, if you have decided about his song. GRAVVINS The Globe and Strand and the Aldwych GRIPPS Oh, how I wish your sister hadn’t prayed and the Palace, Wyndham’s and The Yes. Send it back. Rubbish, piffle! As for a baby brother. (The phone rings.) Ambassador’s, The Playhouse and The if a man with a name like “Muggins” EFFIE (answers, then to Gravvins) New and The Gaiety and Winter could write anything at all. What are Hullo. Ah! I will inquire. A reporter from Garden too... you waiting for? Where is the song? The Daily Whizz wants to know if he can You want the best seats... interview you about your new cabaret. ■ 6 ■ GRAVVINS GRAVVINS No, tell him I’ve fallen ill, or say I’m We ought to try to get along as matily hoarse and can’t speak. As any pair of lovebirds on a tree. EFFIE (to the caller) GRIPPS I am sorry, but Mr. Gravvins has fallen Misunderstandings off his horse and cannot speak. (to We should try to clear away. Gravvins) He says he will only ask you We’re partners: questions which you can answer with a Let us therefore act as such. nod or a shake of the head. GRAVVINS GRAVVINS One moment while I wipe Well, tell him I’ve got a stiff neck. A silent tear away. EFFIE (to the caller) Mr. Gravvins (Anthony Buck, left) with Mr. These few kind words that you have said Gripps (Jacob Allen) Sorry! Impossible. (hangs up) Have moved me very much. GRIPPS GRAVVINS Mister Gripps, I’ve just been thinking This cabaret of yours. That’s what I I can’t. I’m a tenor! GRIPPS want to talk to you about. EFFIE Mister Gravvins, that is strange. GRAVVINS Gentlemen, gentlemen! BOTH What’s the matter with my cabaret? GRAVVINS That if you could spare a moment, GRIPPS Gripps, I forgot myself. I should have We might possibly arrange Think of the cost, the expense. When remembered there were ladies present. To proceed around the corner the Commissioners in Bankruptcy GRIPPS For a moistening of the lips. examine me, I know what I shall say. Gravvins, I was wrong to become Are you with me, Mister Gravvins? GRAVVINS incensed. There were faults on both GRAVVINS What shall you say? sides. Not, perhaps, on mine... Positively, Mister Gripps... GRIPPS GRAVVINS GRIPPS I shall say, “Gentlemen, I may have been What do you mean by that? You self- I never have encountered your superior careless, I may have been remiss. But appointed darling of the Gods... In dignity, ability and grace. Your gifts what I attribute my downfall to is—in EFFIE Are not confined to your exterior. a nutshell—this: I was chained in the Gentlemen, please! Your soul is just as lovely as your face. galley with a partner with a brain like GRAVVINS (stiffly) You raise the moral tone a dressed crab... Gripps! Of the community, your nature GRAVVINS GRIPPS Is so pure and undefiled. What’s that? Gravvins! GRAVVINS GRIPPS Your parents missed Oh, I will repeat the remark, if desired. DUET Track 6 A golden opportunity: they should, GRAVVINS GRIPPS Of course, have drowned you You can’t go about abusing me... Forgive me if I spoke a little weightily. In a bucket as a child. GRIPPS We two should strive our hardest to agree Mister Gripps, I’d like to mention Kindly lower your voice. That your gifts are wasted here. ■ 7 ■ GRIPPS GRIPPS Mister Gravvins, I don’t take you. When might you be occupying the Kindly make your meaning clear. family manor, with thirty thousand a GRAVVINS year to chuck about? Well, a job you’d do much better JIM Would be selling fish and chips. Ah, well, you know all about that. I GRIPPS don’t get the house and the money till You’re a blighter, Mister Gravvins I’m married. GRAVVINS GRIPPS You’re a bloater, Mister Gripps. What’s the snag? GRAVVINS JIM Mister Gripps, I’d like to...... If my trustees don’t approve of the girl I (They continue in this vein, and then marry...no house, no money. go off, arm in arm.) GRIPPS I see. Who are the trustees? DIALOGUE Track 7 JIM Jim Paradene (Stefan Gordon) JIM (coming in) Cousin Harrogate is the head of the heard from her, she was earning a few Good morning, Miss Dix. family. Of all the incompetent, empty- pounds a week in The Night Owls, a EFFIE headed asses, without an opinion of travelling . Ah! I suppose everyone Oh, good morning, Mr. Paradene. his own... would say that there weren’t two people Fancy seeing you here. You look well. GRIPPS in the world more unsuited to each other. JIM Well, that may help you. GRIPPS Of course I look well. Don’t I live in JIM Well, then... the country? That’s the life, you know. Not a chance. His mother bosses him JIM Up at six, out in the open all day, bed entirely. Ever met her? But, damn it, man, I love her! at nine... GRIPPS MISS SIMMONS (comes in with some EFFIE No, I don’t think I have. sheet music for Jim) Is this the type of Ugh! That wouldn’t suit me. I’ll tell Mr. JIM song you require, sir? Gripps you are here, Mr. Paradene. He is She’s one of the good old Vere de Vere JIM always glad to see you. school, and unfortunately the only girl I Thank you, may I hear it? (to Gripps) GRIPPS (coming back in just then) could ever marry is the last girl in the Don’t you see that makes all these James, my bucolic old friend. Where did world she would ever approve of. superficial objections mere trivialities? you spring from? GRIPPS I love her and I think she loves me. JIM Don’t tell me you are still in love with (Several shop girls gather around Miss I’m only up in town for one day. Got an that little chorus girl! Simmons at the piano.) appointment to meet my old aunt here JIM and take her out to lunch. I’m still in Her name is Marilynn Morgan. They call SONG Track 8 the old cottage with Mrs. Black, who her Flick in the theatre. The last time I GIRLS (singing Jim’s song) continues to attend to my modest needs. “There she stood in a world of roses, ■ 8 ■ Eyes a-dreaming and sweet cheeks aglow Shadows o’er the lawn went creeping Gravvins, he said. Then we could try over Breezes playing, went a-straying through And dark grew the sky. the stuff—the music and things and all Her tresses with soft caresses...” The roses slept with their petals furled. that—and Gravvins could give it the GRIPPS (speaking to Jim) We seemed alone in a magic world. once-over and slip the OK. I see. You’ve got to have a wife to All alone together, she and I. MISS WITMORE occupy the old family pew and all that There we stood in a world of roses, I see. What name shall I say? sort of thing... ‘Neath the shy light of the sickle moon. ADA JIM Birds were sleeping, stars were peeping. Just say “Little Ada.” My name really is Yes, and she could do it if only she In the gloaming the bats were roaming. Ada Little. That’s my nom-de-theatre. wanted to. If she would only get London All around in the dewy twilight “Little Ada...” It looks well on the busses. out of her system. At the bottom of her All the roses hid their heads away. This is Harry Zona. He does things with heart she loves the country, only she But the first rose that blooms in summer bits of string... doesn’t know it. She came down to see Was not so lovely as her face that day. HARRY me one afternoon last summer. You There we stood... Rope, sister, rope! The King of the Lariat. should just have seen her... GRIPPS Look out, world! It was golden summer weather, Well, I doubt whether this is going to ADA The skies were ablaze. weigh much with Lord Harrogate. All right, all right. Those two are March As we wandered there together JIM and April, Society Dance Team. In the sunlit garden ways. Of course it isn’t. He will be guided by MISS WITMORE (going off) Merrily, their songs of welcome his mama, who’ll want to be sure that I’ll inform Mister Gravvins. Birds trilled in each tree. the girl I marry will be the proper sort of ADA The roses knew that their queen was nigh mistress for the old place. Where’s Lily de Jigger? They bowed their heads SHOPGIRLS (reading the music) HARRY As she passed them by, “Far and near in the dewy twilight...” Late, as usual. On the day when she first came to me. JIM (going off) ADA There she stood in a world of roses, Was not so lovely as her face that day! Oh, the privilege of the aristocracy. Eyes a-dreaming APRIL (as singing is heard) And sweet cheeks aglow. DIALOGUE Track 9 Here she is. Hullo, Lil. Breezes playing went astraying MISS WITMORE (as a collection of noisy LILY (enters) Through her tresses with soft caresses. theatrical types enter the shop) Well... I suppose this cabaret stunt really All around, with their petals gleaming Are you all being attended to? is coming off? Have you all signed on the Shone the roses in a brave array. HARRY ZONA dotted line? (They nod yes.) Me too. But the first rose that blooms in summer Is this the office of Gripps and Gravvins? That makes five of us. Who they get Was not so lovely as her face that day. MISS WITMORE for the sixth? There she stood... (Girls join in.) Have you an appointment? ADA When the burning day was over, ADA Oh, some vocalist, I expect. Clara Butt, Like some sweet refrain, Yes, with Mr. Feloosi. Old Bill Feloosi, I shouldn’t wonder. (Singing is heard.) Came the fragrant scent of clover you know, the agent. Twelve-thirty at Mr. LILY From the meadows down the lane. That’s Flick Morgan for a thousand ■ 9 ■ pounds! ADA MARILYNN HARRY It’s a cabaret show: “The All-Night Haven’t you? Now, that’s funny. I’ve had That’s Flick, sure enough, sister. Frolics.” Mr Gravvins, the music a tremendous success. MARILYNN (comes in) publisher, he’s presenting the show. It’s JIM Well, for Heaven’s sake! The whole gang! going to be awfully smart and chic. What in? APRIL Wonderful dresses, all that... MARILYNN How are you, Flick darling? APRIL Oh, in...how stupid of me. What was MARILYNN They want another girl. I know. the name of the play? Just splendid. Hullo, March. Cheerio, LILY JIM Harry, Well, if it isn’t Little Ada! Have you got a song? Marilynn, how can you go on living ADA MARILYNN like this? You put your career before How are you, dearie, all rumbo? Only the old stuff. our love... LILY HARRY MARILYNN What have you been doing since The There is no stuff like the old stuff! I put your career before either! Owls? MISS FIELD (coming in) JIM MARILYNN Are you the ladies and gentlemen who Hang my career! It’s just what it has Not a hoot. Down and out, boys and have an appointment here with Mr. been and always will be. Neither you nor girls, that’s me, or pretty near it. Feloosi, the agent? anyone can alter it. I love you. Isn’t that HARRY HARRY enough? What does the money matter? Well, you’ve struck the right trail now, We are the same! Come down to the country and be my sister. We’re all fixed up, all five of us, MISS FIELD own little wife. and you’re going to be fixed up right Mr. Feloosie has just telephoned that he MARILYNN along with your old pals. is on his way. Will you kindly step up to Why, I’ll tell you the truth now, Jim, I the concert room? love you, Jim dear. You know that, but HARRY (They go. Marilynn stays behind.) it can’t be done. Sister, you said a mouthful! JIM (sadly) JIM (re-entering) What can be done? Marilynn! MARILYNN (pulls away from him) MARILYNN I don’t know. I couldn’t live your life Why, Jim! What a surprise! and you couldn’t live mine. Better give JIM it up, Jimmy. We’ll each journey our What have you been doing? Are you own way. performing? JIM MARILYNN Do you know where journeys end? Not at the moment, no. Why, I’ve just had a very heavy season and want DUET Track 10 a rest. JIM JIM Once a wise old poet I’ve not seen your name anywhere. Marilynn Morgan (Lindsay O’Neil) Wrote a line for me and you. ■ 10 ■ personally... Don’t think much of poets, Never read a poem yet. But I’ll give this one credit, For he said it, you bet! He means “Cheer up, though things look bad.” That’s what he’s driving at. I never knew that poets had The sense to write like that! BOTH We won’t turn back, Signor Feloosi (Gary Moss) We’ll just plot on until ladies and gentlemen waiting upstairs Poor Jill has found her Jack for me kindly to step down. And Jack his Jill. MISS WITMORE Journeys end in lovers finding Yes, sir! All the dreams they dreamed come true. GRAVVINS If you just take heart and make a start, And see they don’t pinch any of the Jim and Marilynn That’s all there is to do. furniture on the way. (Gripps returns.) Because someday we’d read it, The road is rough and winding, Mr. Feloosi, allow me my partner, Mr. And would need it, he knew: but soon you’ll find it mend. Gripps. “Though long,” he said, And there’s laughter and song... GRIPPS “And hard the way (They kiss and stroll off together.) Hello! FELOOSI That lovers have to wend, DIALOGUE Track 11 Pleased, I’m sure. (The cabaret team Upon some far off, happy day, GRAVVINS (coming in with Feloosi) enter.) Ah, here’s the bunch. Boys and They’ll meet at Journey’s End.” Well, Signor Feloosi, what is the girls, this is Mr. Gripps and Mr. Gravvins. However black the clouds may lower still, proportion, as Euclid would say. GRAVVINS Each Jill will find her Jack, FELOOSI Let me see now. I think I’ve got all your Each Jack his Jill. Here’s the preliminary bill. “Feloosi’s All- Journeys end in lovers meeting. names. Now, who starts the program? night Follies—Cabaret, Souper Dansant, Journeys end in dreams come true. HARRY First-Class Attractions. All-Star Program. There’s a haven blest of peace and rest Lily de Jigger! Every Night a Gala Night!” Entrance, two At Journey’s End for you. Cheer up, LILY guineas, including...nothing! I estimate For trouble’s fleeting Oh, I just do my little soubrette number preliminary outlay, including cost of And sorrow soon will mend, with the boys: ”Anybody Like to Heave printing and personal, out-of-pocket And there’s laughter and song a Brick at Me?” expenses—say, five hundred pounds. The whole day long GRIPPS GRAVVINS When you come to the Journey’s End. I’m in on that! I’ll say anything you like, but we’ll call it MARILYNN MARCH three pounds! Miss Witmore, ask those Well, it may happen sometimes, but Then comes our dance set. ■ 11 ■ HARRY (with his lariat and cap guns) ADA Life will at once seem bright And I finish the first part of the program. No. “Do you herd sheep?” And fair to you! ADA GRAVVINS GRAVVINS I can imitate a goldfish. Yes, it’s quite all right, doesn’t matter of Every time you’re in the soup, GRAVVINS (to Ada) course. We shan’t be using the line in the Put the accent on the “whoop!” When was your last engagement? cabaret, but of course, it should be “Have ADA ADA you heard sheep.” If you follow my tip, you’ll find Woolwich Pantomime. Little Bo-Peep. ADA Troubles will vanish away, I only had one line, but a feller in the No, “Do you herd eheep?” Every cloud will be silver-lined band said he could hear me quite GRAVVINS ALL distinctly! Sit down, everyone, please! Come on, Start and do it today: one-two-three GRAVVINS let’s have that Grand Opening. You all Fill up your lungs and shout it: What was the line? know the words: “Dry it” and so forth. “Whoop-de-oodle-do...” You’ll soon see ADA Life is a blank without it, Whoop... SEXTET Track 12 “Do you herd sheep?” Sing it down the garden path, LILY, then ALL GRAVVINS Try it over in your bath. Let it rip, If you’ve the blues What? For there’s a zip about it. And you wish you were dead, ADA One-two-three, If you’ve a tear “Do you herd sheep?” Pull up your socks and shout it, whoop... That you’re starting to shed, dry it, dry it. GRIPPS LILY, then ALL MARCH, APRIL I can hear it over here. When all your bills I have a simple, infallible rule, ADA And your taxes are due And I am sure it will cure you “Do you herd sheep?” And to the workhouse If you’ll try it, try it! GRAVVINS You’re feeling that you may go... HARRY Oh, yes, very good line. But you haven’t GRAVVINS If you’ll just warble: got it quite right. You mean “have you When you are caught in the rain “Whoop-de-oodle-do!!” heard sheep?” With no umbrella and think

The Cabaret Troop: Little Ada (Sahara Glasener- Boles, far left), March, Harry Zona and April (Kelly Dainton, Jon Gerhard and Natalie Easter) and Lily (Karla Hughes, right) ■ 12 ■ You are sure to get lumbago, ‘bago, MARILYNN QUIBB HARRY Like a bird. Oh, thank you, miss. I’m sure I Buck up and yodel “Whoop...” GRAVVINS apologize for intruding. That is the only thing that’s left to do. Can you sing? MARILYNN MARCH, APRIL MARILYNN Is it a song? If the baby has the croup, Like Hell! QUIBB Start right in and whoop the whoop. GRAVVINS Yes, miss, just a little effort in my ADA Have you got a song with you? Just to spare time. If you do, you are sure to find... give me an idea, you know. I don’t want MARILYNN (They carry on and they dance off.) you to enrapture me with a whole morn- Mayn’t I hear it? ing of melody, but you might sing a scale GRAVVINS DIALOGUE Track 13 or something... (She sings Mabel’s Oh, I say, now look here! MARILYNN (comes in again) cadenza. Gravvins sits up.) MARILYNN I want to see Mr. Gravvins, please. GRAVVINS Just one verse, please! Why, this refrain, GRIPPS Yes, well, that’s not so bad. But you “Dancing Time.” The words are very I’ll try and find him for you. Ah, there is can’t sing that in the Follies. They want pretty! my handicap. (Gravvins returns.) something snappy. I’ll say a word to old GRAVVINS Mister Gravvins, here’s a lady, Feloosi and see what can be done. Oh, go ahead then. Don’t mind me. Please be as courtly as you can. MARILYNN I’ve nothing to do for a week. GRAVVINS What, old Feloosi, the agent? Mister Gripps, I will receive her GRAVVINS SONG Track 14 Like an English gentleman. He’s running the show. QUIBB (sings quietly) GRIPPS MARILYNN At the ball, midst laughter gay When conversing, please refrain from Oh, well that settles me. He’s turned me And hearts astir, Any questionable quips, down for three shows already. I haven’t My lady stands alone Can I trust you, Mister Gravvins? a dog’s chance. And bashful is her glance. GRAVVINS GRAVVINS From the gallant throng Positively, Mister Gripps! Well, never mind, we’ll have a try. (A MARILYNN (as Gripps departs) humble worker has entered.) Well, what Are you Mr. Gravvins? do you want now, Quibb? GRAVVINS QUIBB Yes, what do you want? Forgive me, Mr. Gravvins, I was looking MARILYNN for a little piece of music I left in here. I want a job! GRAVVINS GRAVVINS My dear old Beethoven, this isn’t the We’re over-staffed. Lost Property Office. If I have to speak MARILYNN to you again... I mean in the cabaret. MARILYNN (is looking at a page of GRAVVINS manuscript) Is this your music? Can you dance? Quibb (Paul Hopper) ■ 13 ■ My lord approaches her, the dearest boy in the whole world and I GRAVVINS And whispers “Prithee, fair one, know I should make him a miserable There was a philosopher Now’s the time to dance.” and... (she hums as she speaks) well, Who was not wrong Dancing time is just the time for wooing, it’s a great life if you don’t weaken... “There is a time and place Just the time when lovers do and dare. GRAVVINS For everything,” said he. Dancing time is any heart’s undoing, Don’t hum. What’s that you’re humming? “Time for women, time for song.” Music in the air, music everywhere. MARILYNN But when you dance, by gosh, Joyfully your fancy goes aflying Blest if I know. Wait a minute. (looks at It’s time for all the three! High on the wings of a dove. the music) I’ve got it. It’s that song you Dancing time... Listen to the lazy lute sighing, bought from old Methuselah. They sing together and dance a little. Dancing time is just the time for love. GRAVVINS Then ther shop girls join in. (During this melody, Gravvins has gone That’s it! You’ve changed the time. to his desk, written Quibbs a small check MARILYNN DIALOGUE Track 16 and hands the manuscript to Marilynn.) Gee. It’s better that way. FELOOSI (re-entering with the others) MISS SIMMONS (enters) GRAVVINS Great news, boys! Wonderful morning! Mr. Paradene ordered some music to be It’s great! I’ve engaged Marie O’Levy—two sent to him this morning. Have you his months certain! address in the country, Mr. Gravvins? DUET Track 15 MARILYNN (aside) MARILYNN (answers for him, as she looks MARILYNN (reads the manuscript) Marie O’Levy? at music) The Kennels, Westenholme! “There’s a tune I heard not very long ago GRIPPS GRAVVINS Whose haunting melody I thought she was playing somewhere. How did you know? Is dancing in my brain. FELOOSI MARILYNN (humming) Like the voice of someone Finishes next week. Can rehearse at once. I know Mr. Paradene. That I used to know, Fixed her up three hundred pounds a GRAVVINS That always whispers week—dirt cheap. That makes my Well? When it’s time to dance again.” program complete. MARILYNN Dancing time is just when GRAVVINS Very well. Mr. Gravvins, it was very kind The music is playing, Well, there’s one other little turn I of you—very, very dear of you–to buy me When the stars thought we might wedge in. that song, even if it is no good. You’re Are shimmying up in the sky. FELOOSI good, anyway, and I want to tell you Dancing time is just when Who is it? something. Mr. Paradene—Jim—is a Your shoulders are swaying, GRAVVINS great friend of mine. He wants me to When your feet have simply got to glide Ah, Miss Marilynn Morgan. Let me marry him and, so, it comes to this: You must lead me lightly, hold me tightly. introduce you. A find! if I don’t get this cabaret job, I shall Take me where you hear FELOOSI have to... All the saxophones moaning. Oh, we’re old friends. How do, dear? GRAVVINS (fears there will be tears) Where can those ukeleles be? Sorry, full up. Might get you in the Well, is it as bad as all that? Every boy in London is telephoning, chorus if one of the others drops out. MARILYNN Dancing time is any old time for me! Best I can do. Oh no, it’s him I’m thinking of. Why, he’s ■ 14 ■ MARILYNN aunt and precious cousin will take to you GRAVVINS (coming back in with Gripps) But, Mr. Feloosi, I’ve a new song. Why, I in the same way... What’s all this duologue? could sing it to you tomorrow or the next MARILYNN GRIPPS day, maybe. Here it is (shows him Very well, then. Take me out to lunch I think, my dear partner, that we are “Dancing Time.”) It wants altering just a with your aunt. Ask her today. If she will breaking into a private conversation. If, little. The words are all right. It goes have me for a daughter-in-law, I will however, after straining our ears not something like this.. (sings a bit of it. marry you. (She pauses.) Why, of course, to hear a single word of the dastardly Feloosi hardly listens.) you silly old thing, you know she scheme you’ve just unravelled, we FELOOSI wouldn’t even look at me. can help you get away... Run away, dear, and don’t waste my time. JIM JIM GRIPPS, GRAVVINS (annoyed) Well, let’s get married first and chance it. Well, if you two fellows will help us.. Well, now look here, Feloosi. I want you They’ll see how happy we are. She’s an GRIPPS to remember... Pardon me... old dear, my aunt, in spite of her funny Consider it done. MARILYNN (exploding) old ways, and the idiot child has to do JIM No! It’s me you’ve got to listen to, you what he’s told. They’ll give their consent We’ll drive straight to the town and get great fat humbug! I can go in the chorus, right enough and my father’s rotten old “married.” It’s only two miles from my if someone else drops out, can I? I’ve money will be ours. little place. been in the chorus before and will be MARILYNN GRAVVINS again if I have to and proud of it...but No, your father’s rotten old money, as Why not my little place. not in one of yours! And take that cigar you call it, is yours by right and you’re ALL out of your mouth when a lady’s talking going to have it under the conditions he Your little place? to you! Why, I’m going to start a cabaret meant you to have it. GRAVVINS of my own pretty soon, and maybe you’ll JIM The Pergola, Woollam Chersey. come along and ask for a job as chucker- Very well, I have an idea! Let’s com- Two doors past the Oil, Corn and out, and I shall regret to inform you that promise! Let’s pretend to be married— Italian Warehouse. someone else has got the appointment just for one day. I’ll disappear for a JIM and is starting to work right away... fortnight and you keep out of the way. Very well. It’s agreed. When shall it be? (Everyone tries to calm her, as Jim Then we’ll both go down to the country, GRIPPS enters. They all immediately go.) and I’ll ask the old lady and my priceless Better say a fortnight today. Twelve- JIM (alone with her) cousin to come and visit us, announcing thirty? (to Jim) Your aunt will be back Marilynn! Darling, it’s all right. How that we’ve just returned from our in a moment. much longer are you going to put up honeymoon. They’ll give us their blessing, Jim (delighted) with this sort of thing? It’s unthinkable. and then we will go off and be married. A fortnight today at “our little place” Come, dear, take me for what I am. MARILYNN in the country. Never mind the inheritance. I’ve got And if they don’t? quite enough already to make us happy, JIM FINALE Track 17 and we can start...a poultry farm. I’ve Well, we are just where we were GRAVVINS always wanted to...You’ll take to the life before. My little place in the country, like our own ducks to the pond and my You cannot imagine its charms. ■ 15 ■ Just two steps down Unaffected, though well-connected. And gas and water too, oh happy spot! From the Rose and Crown, All in all, one might well compare her TRADESMEN And close to the Waggoner’s Arms. To a rosebud in the month of May. Good morning, mum, Come there and pay us a visit. But the first rose that blooms in summer For your custom we have come. Why go to foreign parts? Before, I mean, Is not so lovely by a dashed long way! So kindly say any orders for today. You’ve been and seen the Pergola, LADY HARROGATE (impressed) We’ll rush to execute Woollam Chersey, Well, really, Harrogate, it sounds as Commissions with agility, In the County of Herts. though it might be all right, after all. For we endeavor to JIM, MARILYNN (as Jim departs) HARROGATE (as they exit) The best of our ability Au revoir, my love, my Jim. (She picks Wait till we’ve met her. To serve our customers up the manuscript again, sings the (The cabaret troop rushes in, brashly With promptness and civility. music first as Quibb wrote it and then rehearsing their number “One-two- ALL joyfully breaks into her own “Dancing- three,” then rushes out again.) Oh, is this not... Time” fox-trot version.) GRIPPS OUTDOOR GIRLS LADY HARROGATE (returns with her son) Mr Gravvins, it’s one-thirty The air has so much ozone Has Mr. Paradene returned? And I feel the need for lunch. It gives a wonderful tone GRIPPS GRAVVINS To our lungs and muscles. Mr...? Oh yes, Lady Harrogate, is it not? We have had a busy morning, We’re out all day. He left a message for you. Where is that We’ve got rid of all the bunch. No other air anywhere message, Miss Dix? (pretends to read a GRIPPS Is half so good as our food, note) “Mr. Paradene is sorry he cannot From a bottle of Pol Rogers For the red corpuscles, lunch with you today, but he quite for- We’ll take long and frequent sips. So the doctors say! got he’s being married this morning.” Are you with me, Mr. Gravvins? LOCAL MEN LADY HARROGATE GRAVVINS Our local girls, we maintain, Married this morning? I precede you, Mister Gripps! (They go.) Have a charm that rather hard to explain, GRIPPS (continues) END ACT ONE END CD ONE But once you’ve kissed ‘em “He will be back in a fortnight and You’ll understand. hopes to see you both.” ACT II—Gravvins’ country house, And nowhere else will you meet HARROGATE Woollam Chersey Others half as dainty and sweet, Well, that settles his jolly old inheritance. And our drainage system is simply grand. OPENING CD II, Track 1 LADY HARROGATE BUSINESS MEN LOCAL WOMAN Not yet, my dear boy. We have to see We’ve just come back from town Oh, bright his fate and glad his lot what she is like. Who is the young And beg to state: the trains, Who settles in this model spot. person? Both up and down, are never late! It’s just the very place GRIPPS (sings his reply) In short, life’s full of bliss To take your wife and daughter to. Have no fear, for I’m sure, quite perfect For those you’ve got the sense No cook would ever leave you here, You’ll declare her, To dwell in this delightful spot. If you besought her to. When you chance to meet. ALL Each house has got its telephone Slim and slender, warm and tender, Can you wonder that the place is dear ■ 16 ■ To our grateful hearts? indiscretion to ask you why you have yet arrived? Oh, if a fellow comes here, brought me here, Mr. Gripps? HOUSEKEEPER He never departs. GRIPPS Mr. and Mrs. Who, sir? Can you picture a keener bliss I thought it would be a little recreation GRIPPS Or a happier lot that to settle down for you, a nice change from the routine Paradene. Mr. and Mrs. James Paradene. For life in this delightful spot? of Bond Street. A little rest, in fact. HOUSEKEEPER YOUNG MEN EFFIE Never heard of them! Let’s go and golf; we suggest, Oh. And what are we doing here? GRIPPS Our course is one of the best. GRIPPS But surely Mr. Gravvins informed you It is awfully jolly, we’ve lots of fun. Our friend James Paradene and his bride that they were to arrive here today. We’ve got a wonderful pro, will arrive here presently, and we’re all EFFIE And he’ll have us playing, you know, rallying around for the royal reception. Yes, he has lent them his house, you Like Cyril Tolly, before he’s done. EFFIE know. OUTDOOR GIRLS Oh, Mr. Paradene...married? Oh, I had HOUSEKEEPER We’ll come and caddy for you, no idea. Oh, how wonderful. Who is it? First I’ve heard of it, sir. All I had was a And if good shots you should do GRIPPS postcard saying it was his birthday today With your cleek and putter, A Miss Morgan. Charming creature. and he might be bringing down some We’ll give three cheers. They’re not exactly married. friends...so would I get in an extra pound But if you foozle or slice, EFFIE (outraged) of butter and three dozen bottles of beer. Why then, by mother’s advice, Mr. Gripps, how dare you bring me here! GRIPPS To the words you utter GRIPPS Strange! We’ll shut our ears. Don’t get excited, my dear. The pro- EFFIE ALL ceedings will be perfectly blameless and Very strange. Oh, bright his fate... Oh, happy spot! under strict supervision. They will HOUSEKEEPER Let’s hasten to the clergyman commence at about three o’clock and Are you certain the young couple are Who will swiftly tie the knot, and then conclude at six pm precisely. It’s a sort of expected today, here? We’ll bill and coo, just I and you test: “Goods on approval for parties GRIPPS In this delightful spot! financially concerned.” Positive. Moreover, I had understood EFFIE from your alluring employer that he had DIALOGUE Track 2 But... issued invitations to the Vicar, the Lord GRIPPS (entering with Effie) GRIPPS Lieutenant, the Urban District Council Well... This, if the word of the local I will confide to you the details later. and the local county families to come grocer is to be relied upon, is the Pergola, Meanwhile, Gravvins has provided the meet them... Woollam Chersey, the recently acquired dovecot, the mise-en-scène, as it were, HOUSEKEEPER country seat of one Gravvins, my partner and all should be in readiness. (He knocks Oh. Good gracious, sir! by the grace of Hades, and a music- at the door. The housekeeper answers.) GRIPPS publisher by fell design! Good afternoon. I am Mister Gripps. I In addition to which the Marquis EFFIE suppose Mr. and Mrs. Paradene have not Harrogate and his revered mother will Oh, what a pretty spot. Would it be an be here by 4:15. ■ 17 ■ HOUSEKEEPER (distressed) MARILYNN And then I may find out during the day Well, all I can say is those three dozen Yes, but we don’t want the whole what sort of husband you’re going to bottles of beer will never go round! station to know it. make. Perhaps you’ll turn out perfectly EFFIE JIM horrid, and I shall end up by refusing I think you can leave this to me, Mr. Of course we do! That’s the whole idea. my consent. Gripps. If you will take me into the Not only the station, but the entire JIM (laughing) house, Mrs.... village. I think I’ll take the chance. HOUSEKEEPER MARILYNN MARILYNN Mrs. Drawbridge. All around, with their petals gleaming, Oh, I wish, though, it were just the EFFIE (exiting with her) Shine the roses in a proud array. Harrogates and not a lot of other ...Yes. Mrs. Drawbridge, we can very JIM people coming today. soon make all arrangements. But the first rose that blooms in summer JIM (as Gripps returns) Is not so lovely as your face today! Hullo, Gripps. I didn’t see you. How are SCENE Track 3 you, old man? You’ve met the wife, of PORTERS (bringing in the suitcases of DIALOGUE Track 4 course. GRIPPS Jim and Marilynn) JIM (happily) Welcome to the Pergola, my dear James. Praise for our zeal and love of work “Mrs. James Paradene.” How won- And welcome to you, my dear...what’s We have from many won. We carry derful it sounds. the name? Any luggage anywhere for anyone, MARILYNN JIM And smile quite nicely Oh, I felt like a...like a criminal when I Marilynn. The sweetest name in the Even when the tip’s a penny one. tied that label on our bag. Oh Jim, I’m world, worn by the sweetest, most MARILYNN, JIM (coming in) sure it’s all wrong! beautiful darling in existence. Oh, is this not a lovely spot? JIM GRIPPS The road is rough and winding Nothing wrong about it. But still, if I’m sorry Gravvins is not here to join in But soon you’ll find it mend, you’ve any misgivings, I have a special the welcome, but I understand from his And there’s laughter and song license all ready for us. Here are our good housekeeper that he is expected The whole day long two names; we can go and get married later with some friends. When you come to the Journey’s End. right away and the Harrogates can go EFFIE (returning) JIM hang! Oh, let me show you into the house, That’s all right, porters. Put the bags MARILYNN Mrs. Paradene. (The women go.) down there. You needn’t wait. No. You’re going to have their consent JIM MARILYNN (tipping them) or it’s good-bye to me. I’ve braced I understood you to say that Gravvins Here you are, porter. Thank you. myself up to play the part and I’m going was coming himself this afternoon and JIM through with it. bringing some friends? What’s that? I have it here darling! JIM GRIPPS (Noise is heard; looking off) MARILYNN Will it be so difficult to play? That low-muffled sound as if of an No, I really couldn’t allow... MARILYNN approaching army. JIM No, Jimmy dear, I don’t think it will. JIM Don’t be silly, we’re “married.” Good heavens! The whole village is on ■ 18 ■ its way here! (The villagers enter; MARILYNN (The girls try it out, echoing her lines; Marilynn comes out again.) Of course. What is the night for? Say, the men repeat James’ earlier refrain, VILLAGER do you ever shimmy? “Journeys End.” After they finish dan- Three cheers for the young couple! ALL cing, they run off.) JIM (as they cheer) Shimmy? Thanks very much. It’s awfully good DIALOGUE Track 6 of you to give us a reception like this. SONG Track 5 GRAVVINS (enters with the Cabaret Two strangers like ourselves. MARILYNN troop) Well, this is my little place. What MARILYNN If you find you’re getting the hump, do you think of it? You’ll all come to tea, won’t you? If you are feeling blue, GRIPPS (comes out to greet him) ALL If your nerves are all on the jump, Oh, there you are, Gravvins. Do you Rather! I’ll tell you what to do: remember offering your house to Jim VILLAGERS Just get up and shimmy awhile, Paradene and Flick Morgan? (Silence) It’s topping to have you down here, Mrs. That is the thing for you. They arrived half an hour ago. This is the Paradene. Woollam Chersey’s a great You’ll find you can dig up a smile day the visit was fixed for. I suppose you place. You’ll love our links. After a shake or two. (She dances.) haven’t remembered your promise to MARILYNN Shimmy with me invite the entire county to come meet Oh, but I’m afraid I don’t play golf. And I will shimmy with you, them either. ANOTHER You’ll find it’s easy to do. GRAVVINS Tennis is your game, what? I’ll see you through, Did I say that? MARILYNN You’ll need a lesson or two GRIPPS (exasperated) I don’t play tennis either. What else do Just at the start, when it’s new. Well, we’ve got to produce one or two you do around here? If you’ve never shimmied, people from somewhere. The first thing OTHERS Start learning now. Don’t be shy or timid is to find out who are the local people Oh, I read and cycle and play I’ll show you how; it’s just a knack, of importance. Badminton... I go in tremendously for Wiggle your back, give a sort of shiver, EFFIE intensive culture... I adore mulching and Then a kind of quiver. I will go and make enquiries. we have a whist drive every Tuesday... Sway, if you please, GRIPPS And a book tea at Mrs. Upwater’s. Just like the trees in a breeze, Good girl. Thank you! MARILYNN You’ll pick it up by degrees. EFFIE (going) But don’t you have any real fun? Once you begin Leave it all to me, Mr. Gripps. VILLAGER You’ll shake right out of your skin. GRIPPS What sort of fun? Go in and win! But how are we going to get them here MARILYNN Shimmy from your shoulders at such short notice. There must be Why, a moonlight run for miles and miles Down to your knee, some special inducement. I know...a in a car... then one little dance to the Give the dazed beholder garden party! gramophone before we go to bed. Something to see. GRAVVINS ANOTHER Start up the music and Oh, I do love a garden party! All my In the middle of the night? Come out and shimmy with me... friends shall come along. ■ 19 ■ GRIPPS (suspiciously) Is her pet recreation. to the country, put on old clothes and What friends? She dresses at her dancing club, our thickest boots and go for a long, GRAVVINS Like Venus rising from the tub. long walk over the hills until it was time Little Ada, ‘Arry Zona and the rest of Oh, dear days of long ago, to come home and spend the rest of the The Follies troop. We cannot bring them back, ah no, evening in front of the the fire. Wouldn’t GRIPPS However we endeavor. you love that, Flick? Mr. Gravvins, you’re the limit. When you took out a girl to dine MARILYNN GRAVVINS In ninety-eight or ninety-nine, I’d...I’d try to, Jimmy darling... with you. Mr. Gripps, you’re even worse! You never knew she had a spine. JIM GRIPPS Her stays are gone forever! (goes off) For years I hunted high and low You offend my inner feelings, Just trying to discover you. SCENE Track 8 You’re the nation’s leading curse. MARILYNN JIM (returning with Marilynn) GRAVVINS Did you get tired? We’ve escaped them at last. If I started to describe you, JIM The coast is clear. Every word would scorch my lips. For somehow, dear, I seemed to know MARILYNN GRIPPS That I was just the lover I’m so happy, Jimmy. Well, then I thank you, Mister Gravvins. You indeed required. JIM GRAVVINS (as Gripps goes) And if I kissed a girl or two, You do love me, then? You are welcome, Mister Gripps. Well. I simply thought they they were you: MARILYNN That’s taken him off. The days of my It’s easy, you’ll agree, to make You know I love you, Jimmy... only... self-suppression are gone forever. That sort of innocent mistake. JIM For I was looking all over, SONG Track 7 Only what? I’d be content to stay All over, all over, GRAVVINS here forever, so long as you were sitting Just searching all over for you. Long years ago girls used to have there just as you are now, in that same Sometimes I’d think I had found you For me a perfect craving. little frock... And then I’d see that I hadn’t They used to wait outside my gate MARILYNN And start once again looking over... To try and watch my shaving. In the same little frock, Jimmy? Oh, A regular rover I grew I used to write romantic verse. why, think! You could take me to town Buzzing around like a bee in the clover My nickname was “The Flapper’s Curse.” and buy me lovely new frocks and hats And looking all over for you... Oh, dear days of long ago. and things... MARILYNN We cannot bring them back, ah no, JIM It’s odd, but I did just the same. However we endeavor. I... For five long years or thereabouts, It sometimes makes me rather sad MARILYNN I tried my best, To think of all the times I’ve had. Unless, of course, we’d go to a show Although I didn’t know your name, I was so handsome as a lad. and supper afterwards. Wouldn’t you To ascertain your whereabouts. Those days are gone forever. love that, Jimmy? JIM Have you observed the modern girl? JIM Now you can rest. I have, with consternation. I might... with you. Then we’d run back MARILYNN For what Dean Inge would call a “binge” And if I listened now and then ■ 20 ■ To compliments from other men, Honorable Mrs. Bubbleton-Upwater. GRIPPS ‘Twas just because, as girls will do, GRAVVINS But how about the vicar? We must have I thought those other men were you. Of Spring Lodge? I know her. the vicar. For I was... (They go on in this vein, GRIPPS GRAVVINS then go off.) She is in hospital with a broken leg. He will be here. I’ll see to that! GRAVVINS ADA DIALOGUE Track 9 She will be here! Do you want me to portray the role of GRAVVINS (comes in with Ada) GRIPPS Mrs. Bubbleton-Upwater? Now, woman, have you thoroughly There’s a Lady Something who lives in GRIPPS grasped the trend of the scenario? the big house down the road... You see how the idea is sinking in? ADA GRAVVINS ADA Of course I have. Flick and Mister She will be here. I shall be so nervous I shall die of fright. Paradene are... GRIPPS GRIPPS GRAVVINS What is he raving about? Nonsense, nonsense. What’s there to be ...pretending to be married. That’s right. GRAVVINS afraid of? It’s just a harmless little deception. If you will kindly listen to me for a GRIPPS (enters, upset) TRIO Track 10 moment... Have you ever seen Colonel Gravvins! GRIPPS, GRAVVINS, ADA Slobberley? GRAVVINS Let’s pull ourselves together, GRIPPS What is it now? For there’s not a thing to be frightened at Well, of course not. GRIPPS What was that? GRAVVINS I have been enquiring about the local It must have been a bird you heard I have. He’s a tall, big man with a voice bigwigs, and they are all away! And the A roosting on the tree like a sand-eel calling to its young... whole essence of the scheme was that Or the cat on the mat. ‘Arry Zona! the Harrogates should find them here. We’ll have to take a tonic ADA Now, what are we going to do? Or a cocktail on a tray, What are you talking about? GRAVVINS For we’re not ourselves today. GRAVVINS (the others begin to see) Wait! My brain is functionning with a Oh, I feel so ner-ner-nervous, Mrs. Upwater is a woman of medium strange rapidity. I’ve got an idea! I der-don’t know what to do. height, neat appearance and sparkling GRIPPS For my heart is going buh-bump, conversation... Little Ada! Leave the Colonel Slobberley, J.P... he seems to be My pulse is going thuh-thump. whole thing to me. I will handle this the biggest pot. He’s up in Scotland. At every sound I leap and bound affair. I am entertaining this afternoon at GRAVVINS And jump! Oh I feel... my little place a troop of skilled artists He will be here! I know what I’m doing. And my legs go round in cur-cur-curves. capable of playing anything from You’ve heard of Machiavelli? I taught him Please don’t the-the-think Hamlet to a billiard ball. I think...I say, I all he knew. He took my correspondance It’s due to der-der-drink, think they will be equal to the task of course. Now, tell me more of the missing It is due-do-do to ner-ner-nerves! impersonating people like Mrs. Upwater bigwigs. Let’s pull ourselves together and Colonel Slobberley. GRIPPS We’ll regard this by and by as a joke. Well, the nearest neighbor is the ■ 21 ■ Holy smoke! love to think of everything! HARROGATE I am James’ trustee and my consent and approval are not entirely negligible. JIM (signalling for Marilynn) Well, here she is! Marilynn darling, this is Lady Harrogate, Lord Harrogate. Aunt Julia, Rocky...my wife. MARILYNN (putting on airs) Do forgive my appearance. I’ve been doing some gardening. LADY HARROGATE Ah, you are fond of gardening? Ada, Gravvins and Gripps: “Nervous” MARILYNN Lord Harrogate (Ben Robinson) Oh yes, I love it. Don’t let that noise alarm you. GRIPPS (entering) LADY HARROGATE (aside) It just happened that a fly Lady Harrogate, may I introduce myself? This is very gratifying, eh, Harrogate? On my coat cleared his throat. Horace Gripps, a very old friend of HARROGATE I thought it was a dynamite explosion your nephew. Might be worse. ‘Cross the way, JIM MARILYNN For we’re not ourselves today. I forgot to tell you old Gripps was looking Isn’t it delightful to get down into the Oh, I feel so... in, Aunt Julia. And we are expecting quite country after stuffy old London? I feel a number of our local friends too. like a different girl. DIALOGUE Track 11 MARILYNN LADY HARROGATE JIM (leads in his aunt and cousin after Colonel Slobberley, J.P. Of course it is some time since you the others depart.) This way, Aunt Julia! JIM were in London. Here we are. Mrs. Bubbleton-Upwater. MARILYNN HARROGATE GRIPPS Oh no, I was there yesterday. (Jim I am hurt...offended. You announce And Lady Something who lives in the coughs.) I mean, it seems like yesterday. abruptly to us that you are married and big house at the end of the road. JIM ALL THREE invite us down here to meet your bride. I You see, the honeymoon passed by like They will be here! fail to understand why the lady was not a flash. Just like a flash! LADY HARROGATE submitted to my... MARILYNN LADY HARROGATE Yes, it hardly seems as if we had a You seem to be very popular in the Er... honeymoon at all, does it, Jim dear? neighborhood. HARROGATE LADY HARROGATE (to her son) GRIPPS ...our inspection before the ceremony Delightful! Harrogate, I like this girl. The neighborhood fawns upon them, took place. HARROGATE Lady Harrogate... simply fawns upon LADY HARROGATE Might be worse. them! Why, Colonel Slobberley is like a You can’t expect two young people in brother. ■ 22 ■ JIM LADY HARROGATE And Mrs. Bubbleton-Upwater is like a I think there is no harm in telling you that sister. James has been something of an anxiety MARILYNN to us. Perhaps he has told you himself of And Lady Something who lives in the the infatuation...the passing infatuation... big house down the road simply camps he at one time had for a young woman in our garden. in the theatrical profession. EFFIE (as Jim and Gripps depart) MARILYNN Lady Lillian Baldicott! Yes, he told me. She was a chorus girl. LILY (entering) LADY HARROGATE Hullo, Marilynn, dear. Ah, I am sure you are far too sensible to MARILYNN worry about that. Anyone with eyes in My best friend, Lady Lilian Baldicott. their head could tell in a moment that Jim Lady Harrogate. worships you. The infatuation is evidently LADY HARROGATE dead and buried. Mind you, my dear, I’m Lily, Marilynn, Effie and Lady Harrogate Delighted. You must be the daughter of (left to right) at Woollam Chersey not narrow. I have no objection to ladies my old friend, . of the theatre, in their proper place. LILY say that when I first learned of my MARILYNN Yes. nephew’s impetuous marriage, I had Oh, in their proper place. MARILYNN grave doubts as to its wisdom. LADY HARROGATE And this is Lord Harrogate. MARILYNN But naturally, their environment and ideas LILY It was sudden, wasn’t it? make them hardly suitable to become the How do you do? You aren’t Rocky LADY HARROGATE wives of country gentlemen. So, you see Harrogate! Now I have seen you, I am not surprised how happy it has made me to find that HARROGATE at its being sudden. If James had hesi- James has chosen you. Yes, yes I am. tated about marrying you, I should have JIM (coming back in) LILY thought him a fool! Ah, having a nice cosy chat? Tea, No, really! I’ve heard a lot about you. MARILYNN everybody? (Aside to her as guests HARROGATE Oh, Lady Harrogate! Then you do like me. begin to arrive.) How’s it going? Have you? I say, would you like to hear LADY HARROGATE MARILYNN some more? My dear, I do. Splendidly, darling, but Jim, I’m worried. LILY MARILYNN JIM Oh. Adore it! And you think me...suitable? Nonsense. Nothing to worry about! HARROGATE LADY HARROGATE MARILYNN Come and have a look at the garden. Oh, my dear child, you are just the wife But there is. Your aunt’s a dear, and I (They go off.) Jim’s father would have chosen for him. hate deceiving her. Don’t you think we LADY HARROGATE You are ideal. had better tell her everything? My dear, now that we are alone I can MARILYNN JIM speak freely to you. You won’t mind if I Oh! For Heaven’s sake, no! ■ 23 ■ EFFIE (announcing) GRAVVINS (he is tipsy, weaving) ADA Colonel Slobberley! My friends, my dear friends! Toodles! HARRY ZONA (in military costume) I was working in my study GRAVVINS H’are yuh, everybody, h’are uh? Damn, On a sermon for next Sunday Ah, yes. Ah, Colonel? How is the gout? this is a joyful occasion. A dashed joyful On some foolish superstitions HARRY ZONA occasion, dash it! Which have lately been revived. Cheer-o, cully! JIM ALL GRAVVINS A very old friend of my wife’s, Aunt Julia. Observe, with what a genial air I have not seen you since the Mothers’ One of the Worcestershire Slobberleys. He beams upon the happy pair. Meeting the second Sunday before MARILYNN GRAVVINS Epiphany. (to Marilynn) I think this must Oh, how sweet of you to come and see When old George, our worthy sexton, be the bride. May I? (kisses her) us so soon, Colonel. My husband’s aunt, Brought the welcome information that JIM Lady Harrogate! The young and happy couple had arrived. How do you do. EFFIE ALL GRAVVINS The Honorable Mrs. Bubbleton-Upwater. This speech no doubt is kindly meant. Mr. Paradene? I felicitate you, sir, I ADA (enters, dressed as gentry, but in He’s cordial and benevolent. felicitate you! the excitement, forgets the accent) But on the whole, we must confess, JIM Where are they? (to Marilynn) Oh, you We wish he’d talk a little less. Thanks. I want you to meet my aunt. sweet thing. And so this is your husband? GRAVVINS LADY HARROGATE I do hope you two dear rash creatures Permit me, if you’ll pardon my audacity, How do you do? will be very, very happy... To state that I consider you have shone GRAVVINS JIM (alarmed) The utmost taste and sense Charmed. Charmed. Another old friend of my wife’s, And perspicacity in choosing JIM Aunt. One of the Sussex Bubbleton- Woollam Chersey for you own. Lord Harrogate. Upwaters. The guidebooks call our village Paradisical GRAVVINS And we who live here Delighted. Delighted. What a beautiful FINALE Track 12 Know that this is true. garden you have here, Mrs. Paradene. EFFIE And so I hastened hither on my tricycle GRIPPS (pulling him away) The Reverend Hugo Pebblewhite, Master To say I hope ‘twill prove It was kind of you, my dear vicar, to tear Pebblewhite and Miss Pebblewhite To be a Paradise for you. yourself away from your duties in order to ALL (Gravvins enters in costume with welcome the young couple. (Gravvins And so he hastened... March and April as children.) tries to reply, but his mouth is now full JIM (to his aunt) GUESTS of wedding cake.) This is the Vicar of Woollam Chersey, Who d’you think that this is? GRIPPS (angrily, aside) Aunt. Doubtless someone who Mister Gravvins, just a moment! GRAVVINS (stumbling) Used to teach the bridegroom GRAVVINS Ah, I see some familiar faces. Dear Mrs. When a lad Mister Gripps, don’t interfere! Bubbleton-Upwater, you look charming. To seek the good and shun the bad. GRIPPS I think so, don’t you? Pray be careful of your conduct, ■ 24 ■ VICAR VICAR I am delighted to welcome you and your My dear lady, I have no idea. I met him wife to my parish. (sees Gravvins) Ah, a for the first time just now. fellow member of the cloth. HARROGATE GRAVVINS Met him for the first time? But Uh yes, a brother brush. he told us that he was the Vicar of VICAR Woollam Chersey. Have you a cure in this neighborhood? VICAR GRAVVINS (misunderstanding) I am the Vicar of Woollam Chersey. A cure? There’s nothing the matter ALL with it. Yes, this is our Vicar. VICAR That, of course, is true. I shall welcome the opportunity of Why, the other man must be a crook. discussing with you that letter from the He had a nasty, shifty look. Bishop in this week’s Church Times. A He’s bad through and through. Gravvins masquerades as the Vicar little ill-judged, do you not think? LADY HARROGATE (to Jim) GRAVVINS (in a panic) While you’re masquerading here. I am completely at a loss to understand Oh yes. But I fear I must now tear GRAVVINS what this means... myself away. I have to look after a matter Oh, my brethren, I’m as joyful JIM of... er, tithes! As a lamb that leaps and skips! Quite simple, Aunt. It... er... VICAR GRIPPS GRIPPS Do you have much trouble with tithes? Have a doughnut, Mister Gravvins! As Jim says, the explanation is quite GRAVVINS simple. Well, um... In a rising place like GRAVVINS Oh, yes. My experience is that, once this, they would, of course, have two Go to blazes, Mister Gripps! you’ve got ‘em into the woodwork, you vicars! ALL can’t get them out. (He runs off.) JIM We’d like to say that we, with no dissent GRIPPS (to Gravvins) Most towns, I own Endorse most heartily his sentiment. You’ve made a nice hash of it, you and Have one vicar, one alone. Like him, we hope your vicars! GRIPPS That bliss will be your lot. GRAVVINS (drinking again) That you’ll find joy in this delightful spot, What? Haven’t I clicked? But in this place Model spot! GRIPPS They engage ‘em by the brace. HOUSEKEEPER Why, you might just as well have come It may seem odd, I know, at first, The Vicar of Woollam Chersey! dressed as the prime minister! But there, well, there it is. (The actual vicar enters.) GRAVVINS JIM VICAR What a great idea. He will be here! Two vicars tend our little flock And which is Mister Paradene? LADY HARROGATE (to the vicar) And in their care it is. JIM Who is this Mr. Pebblewhite? GRIPPS I am Mr. Paradene. Sin thus becomes the very rarest How do you do? Of all rarities. ■ 25 ■ ALL LADY HARROGATE Oh, is this not a model spot! And are you a member of this... cabaret VICAR troop? But I am the only vicar of Woollam MARILYNN Chersey. No. I’d have liked to be, only I wasn’t GRIPPS clever enough. Yes, you think you are, but... LADY HARROGATE LADY HARROGATE (to the Vicar) I am surprised that there is anything for Tell me, do you know a Colonel which you arte not clever enough. And Slobberley? this lady... “Lady” Lillian? VICAR LILY (haughtily) Most certainly. One of my oldest friends. That happens to be my name. LADY HARROGATE HARROGATE Is that Colonel Slobberley? It makes no difference whatever. James, Marilynn realizes the masquerade is over. VICAR I refuse to give my approval to this All my dreams are broken Absurd. The colonel is in Scotland. marriage. And can’t be mended. HARROGATE MARILYNN MARILYNN Is that Mrs. Bubbleton-Upwater? It won’t be needed. I am not... Dancing time is all that is left for me. VICAR JIM ALL Oh, no. No. Poor Mrs. Bubbleton- Marilynn! All her dreams of happiness Upwater is in the hospital. MARILYNN Now are ended. (All are saddened.) LADY HARROGATE I am not married to Mr. Paradene. END ACT TWO Can you explain this, James? VICAR Not married? JIM ACT THREE HARROGATE I’ll explain tomorrow, aunt. OPENING Track 13 Not married. James was not such a fool LADY HARROGATE A London nightclub. as I thought, mother. I desire an explanation now. JIM (entering, spots Ada) JIM (furious) HARROGATE Good evening! What do you mean? You don’t dare to So do I. ADA suggest... Surely, Aunt, you can’t think? MARIYNN (coming forward) Oh. Hullo, Jimmy. Who said you could LADY HARROGHATE (sadly, leaving) Then you shall have it. That is not the come in here? Mr dear boy, what else can I think. colonel, and that is not Mrs. Upwater. JIM MARILYNN These people are my friends, members of Oh, that’s all right. I’ve got permission. We gave it a fair trial, Jim dear, and it a cabaret troop. (They all try to talk and GRAVVINS (barges in, tipsy again) failed. I’m going back where I came from. sing at once.) Stop it, all of you. It’s no Who’s been telling you stories? All my rainbow visions good! We got them to pretend so as to JIM Are over and ended... impress you. I only came to see Miss... JIM HARROGATE GRAVVINS Rainbow visions which I used to see. Impress us? I like that! I am not interested in your amours! Your ■ 26 ■ recent escapade at the Pergola has cost Just so long as it’s in London, I don’t care. LADY HARROGATE me enough as it is. My position as a London’s foggy, also dirty, Quite. “The All-Night Follies,” he said. county gentleman has been seriously And it closes at twelve-thirty, He insisted that he had some news of the jeopardized, my future as an J.P. rendered but you’ll fine me right there! utmost importance to impart to me, and null and void. You should be aware, sir, I think the old Metrop that he wanted me to meet somebody. that we in the country, we... Is more or less tip-top. GRIPPS JIM It’s grey and musty, but not so dusty. Does he come here often? Oh, damn the country! I’m trying to To speak more precisely, LADY HARROGATE forget it. If I hadn’t been so cursedly It suits me quite nicely. Oh, he has never been there that I am selfish and narrow-minded, I shouldn’t London, dear old... aware. My nephew James, on the other have lost the only thing worth having in I am told they want to brighten it. hand, I understand is a frequent visitor. this world. I haven’t seen her since that Well, I’m proud to do my bit, delighted GRIPPS day, and I don’t know where she is and If and when invited. Yes, our brightest little customer. what she’s doing. But when I find her, When you brighten London, LADY HARROGATE I’m going to marry her. I’ll live any way Put me anywhere. Foolish boy. Why wasn’t he frank with us she likes and anywhere she likes. I’m a If you want a man to do it, over that little girl? Can he blame either Londoner now all right. She won’t I’m the fellow, lead me to it, and Harrogate or me for thinking as we recognize the old bumpkin. I’ve joined I guarantee that I will do my share. did? I like the little girl and am sure she every club that’ll have me. I know every You may spread the information would have made him happy, which is all tailor and every shirtmaker from Piccadilly That I’ve found my true vocation, we want. I don’t pretend to understand to Hanover Square. I’ve taken every girl And I’ve found it right there! her entourage... in every chorus to every meal at every (Other gents join in.) GRIPPS restaurant! Brighter London, that’s the stuff. She’s a charming girl, but of course I The place is not half bright enough. don’t pretend to understand women, SONG Track 14 We have to lend a hand, it’s only fair. being dedicated to a single existence. JIM Lead the way and you will find LADY HARROGATE I used to hate the strife That we are trailing close behind. Oh? You are unaccompanied then And din of London life, Yes, we will be there! (They go in.) tonight? But my tastes lately have altered greatly, GRIPPS Yes, long past that day is. As a matter of fact, no. There’s a little And now, all I say is: DIALOGUE Track 15 secretary of mine, a Miss Dix, she’s London, brighter London, LADY HARROGATE (enters with Gripps) meeting me here at...ah, here she is! Save a place for me! Thank you, Mr. Gripps! It’s very good of EFFIE (coming in just then) You may make a note upon your cuff you to escort me. I received a telephone Good evening, Horace. Sorry I’m late. That I find London good enough. message from my son, asking me to There were one or two little matters to Remove all doubts of my approval. meet him here tonight. An extraordinary attend to before I could get away. If there’s room in London, request! GRIPPS Put me anywhere! GRIPPS Let me introduce you to Lady Harrogate. I’d prefer the Ritz, but failing that Are you sure it was here? LADY HARROGATE How do you do, Miss Dix? I’ll sleep against a railing, ■ 27 ■ EFFIE addressing Lady Lillian Baldicott, my How do you do, Lady Harrogate? We fiancée! met, I think, at Woollam Chersey. JIM LADY HARROGATE Do you mean to say you’re really You must both come and have lunch going to marry her? with me at Harrogate House one day HARROGATE this week. Cerrtainly I am. EFFIE (before Gripps can reply) JIM Oh, we’d be delighted! But I’m, afraid Eureka! He can’t object now, no matter this week Mr. Gripps is rather busy. what happens! Stocktaking begins tomorrow, Gramo- phone Manufacturers’ meeting on Wed- INTERLUDE Track 16 nesday, and on Thursday he’s to be SONG Track 17 married. Inside the All-Night Follies. (The show GRIPPS begins. Marilynn and girls appear in Marilynn, the “Cabaret Girl” Going to be married?? Whom to? exotic costumes.) EFFIE MARILYNN DIALOGUE Track 18 Oh, me, of course. Where the feathered palm trees GRIPPS (comes in with Effie) GRIPPS Lightly sway, all along Oh it’s so clear to me now. The whole It’s the first I’ve heard of it. The blue Hawaiian bay, thing. That extraordinary feeling I used to EFFIE Set in opal high above have the last few months whenever you Twelve o’clock at St. George’s. I hope Are my memories of my love. came near me must have been love! I you’ll honor us, Lady Harrogate! Could I send a message to him, I’d say: had an idea it was rheumatism! LADY HARROGATE (as they all go in) “When it’s moonlight in Kahlua, EFFIE Most certainly! Night like this is divine. Would you do anything int he world for GRAVVINS (enters with Jim, complaining It was moonlight in Kahlua me, Horace? about Little Ada) I can’t get rid of that When your kisses met mine. GRIPPS goldfish, Little Ada! She says she’ll Although the rose and jasmine Anything, fair creature, how could you perform tonight or burn this place Bloom as fair and love ask that? down. I’ve tried persuasiobn, force, drink, Is calling through the scented air, poetry. There’s only one thing left. I shall Everywhere... It is lonely in Kahlua have to marry the girl. She’s madly in love Now that you are not there.” with me and I’m crazy about myself! (Lily Shadows fall from every haunted pine enters with Lord Harrogate, arm in arm.) Where the moonrays on the water shine Ah, there you are, Lily. Nice thing coming There’s a road of spangled blue in at this hour! That would lead me straight to you, HARROGATE (stiffly) Could I only follow the silver line. I don’t know whether you are aware of “When it’s moonlight...” (Girls join her.) the fact, my good man, but you are Effie and Gripps kiss ■ 28 ■ EFFIE On your pale white arms, JIM If I left my pair of gloves in a lion’s den, On your ruby lips, Marilynn! would you go in and get them for me? From your honey charms, (They see each other, call one another’s GRIPPS There the love bee sips. names. Jim happily joins her.) No, but I’d buy you a new pair of gloves. On your snow-white breast, MARILYNN (They laugh and go in.) On your silken hair, Take me where In supernal rest, The bees in the flowers are droning. FINALE Track 19 Let me hide me there! (Everyone repeats JIM (Little Ada, Lily and Gravvins enter.) the tune. Suddenly Marilynn re-appears No! London is the only place to be! THREE at the top of the stairs, and sings the BOTH, then ALL Oriental dreams that enrapture me, old song.) All the boys in London... On an Eastern sea, under Eastern skies. Dancing time is just when... Dancing time is any old time for me! Oriental eyes in a golden shrine, MARILYNN END ACT THREE END CD II Where a love like mine Jim? So eternal seems. Lo-ho!

2008 Ohio Light Opera Orchestra

Violin: Andrew Lisbin, concertmaster; Ben Freeman, Jennifer Louie, Tom McDonald, Maeve O’Hara, Belita Schloneger, Alice Silva Viola: Emily Milko, Lanson Wells Cello: Rajli Bicolli, George Bosnea Bass: Jack Steward Flute: Nicholas DiCillo, Jessica Sindell Oboe: Laura Gershman, Allison Pickett Clarinet: Brittany Mathis, Spencer Prewitt Bassoon: Christopher Aldrich, Patrick Souza Horn: Daniel Nebel, Matt Taylor Trumpet: William Neve, Rachel Brandt

Trombone: Molly McNeill, Graham Middleton Michael Borowtiz Harp: Amanda Evans Conductor Pecussion: Christopher Lizak, Thomas Roblee John Schuesselin Personnel Manager ■ 29 ■ THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER Liberal arts colleges are, in the words of President Grant H. Cornwell, ”an American invention.” A recent study measured the leading 50 colleges in three critical areas— educating scientists, educating leaders in international Grant H. Cornwell affairs, and educating business executives. Wooster is PRESIDENT one of only 21 colleges to earn a place in all three groups. It is also a school which is dedicated to the performing arts with strong programs in theater and music. Since establishing The Ohio Light Opera in 1979, Wooster has upheld the goals of providing young musicians with an opportunity to perform in a professional setting and of entertaining audiences with operettas which charmed the publics of an earlier era. ■ 30 ■ The Ohio Light Opera 2008 Festival Staff Steven Daigle Artistic Director Julie Wright Associate Artistic Director Laura McGraw Neill Executive Director Michael Borowitz Music Director J. Lynn Thompson Principal Guest Conductor Steven A. Daigle Stage Director Tymberley Wittrig Set Designer Krystal Kennel Steven Daigle Julie Wright Costa Michael Borowitz Lighting Designer Artistic Director/Stage Director Associate Artistic Director Conductor Carol Hageman Choreographer Jessica Cole Production Stage Manager

Acknowledgements: Grant Cornwell President, College of Wooster ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Mr. & Mrs. William Blanchard Hon. John D. Ong Mrs. Harold Freedlander Barbara Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Knorr John Schambach Boyd & Eloise Mackus Dave & Carol Sherck Michael & Nan Miller Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Stein Laura McGraw Neill John Ostendorf Executive Director Recording Producer

The Cabaret Girl production was made possible by the generous support of Don and Shirley Buehler, Vi Startzman Robertson, Wayne-National City Foundation, Andrew Boose, and the Jerome Kern and P. G. Wodehouse estates.

Albany’s OLO CD series also includes Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, The Gondoliers, The Sorcerer, The Yeomen of the Guard and The Grand Duke; ’s Naughty Marietta, The Red Mill and Sweethearts; Kalman’s Der Zigeunerprimas and Autumn Maneuvers; DeKoven’s Robin Hood; Offenbach’s Bluebeard and The Brigands; Friml’s The Vagabond King and The Firefly; and Zeller’s The Birdseller. ■ 31 ■ The Cabaret Girl CD ONE (55:22) 1 Act I, OVERTURE / INTRODUCTION (5:07) 2 CHORUS: “Love song is ended” (2:16) 3 DIALOGUE: “Hello. Yes?” (1:43) 4 SONG: “You want the best seats” (2:38) 5 DIALOGUE: “Miss Simmons!” (3:07) 6 DUET: “Mr. Gripps, I’ve just been thinking” (2:39) 7 DIALOGUE: “Good morning, Miss Dix” (2:06) 8 SONG: “There she stood” (5:23) 9 DIALOGUE: “Are you all being attended to” (3:48) 10 DUET: “Journey’s End” (3:15) 11 DIALOGUE: “Well, Signor Feloosi” (2:11) 12 SEXTET: “Whoop-de-oodle-do” (3:22) 13 DIALOGUE: “I want to see Mr. Gravvins” (1:58) 14 SCENE: “Dancing time” (2:51) 15 DUET: “Dancing time” (4:05) 16 DIALOGUE: “Great news, boys!” (4:05) 17 FINALE: My little place” (4:45) CD TWO (58:46) 1 Act II, OPENING: “The Pergola Patrol” (4:38) 2 DIALOGUE: “Ah, well!” (2:51) 3 SCENE: “Praise for our zeal” (1:39) 4 DIALOGUE: “Mrs. James Paradene” (3:03) 5 SONG: “Shimmy with me” (3:32) 6 DIALOGUE: “Well, this is my little place” (1:16) 7 SONG: “Oh, dear days of long ago” (2:08) 8 SCENE: “We’ve escaped...Looking all over” (4:56) 9 DIALOGUE: “Now, woman!” (2:24) 10 TRIO: “Oh, I feel so nervous” (2:02) 11 DIALOGUE: “This way, Aunt Julia” (5:24) 12 FINALE: “Who do you think” (9:07) 13 Act III, OPENING: “Good evening” (1:37) 14 SONG: “London, brighter London” (1:50) 15 DIALOGUE: “Thank you, Mr. Gripps” (2:42) 16 INTERLUDE (1:00) 17 SONG: “Kahlua” (3:26) 18 DIALOGUE: “It’s so clear to me now” (0:34) 19 FINALE: “Oriental dreams” (4:23) BACK COVER SKETCH: Charlene Gross