A Gaiety Girl - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

ACT I - The Cavalry Barracks at Winbridge.

  • No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "When a masculine stranger goes by, array'd in a uniform smart..."
  • No. 2 - Chorus & Song - Sir Lewis - "O sing a welcome fair to Mr. Justice Grey." & "I'm a judge..."
  • No. 3 - Song - Goldfield - "Beneath the skies of summer sweet I linger where two pathways meet..."
  • No. 4 - Chorus & Concerted Piece - "Here come the ladies who dazzle Society..."
  • No. 5 - Song - Lady Virginia & Chorus - "I am favourably known as a high-class chaperone..."
  • No. 6 - Concerted Piece, with Girls & Major - "To the barracks we have come..."
  • No. 7 - Duett - Dr. Brierly & Rose - "Oh, my daughter, there's a creature known as man..."
  • No. 8 - Trio - Lady Virginia, Sir Lewis & Dr. Brierly - "When once I get hold of a good-looking He..."
  • No. 9 - Song - Dr. Brierly - "Little Jimmy was a scholar and his aptitude was such..." (five verses)
  • No. 10 - Waltz
  • No. 11 - Song - Goldfield - "Oh, we take him from the city or the plough..." (four verses)
  • No. 12 - Finale Act I - "To my judicial mind there's not a doubt..."

ACT II - On the Riviera.

  • No. 13 - Introduction and Opening Chorus - "Here on sunlit sands daintily we figure..."
  • No. 14 - Concerted piece - "That ladies cannot bathe, if so they please, without encount'ring creatures such as these..."
  • No. 15 - Trio - Rivers, Fitzwarren & Goldfield - "Buck up, buck up, old chappie!..."
  • No. 16 - Song - Mina - "When your pride has had a tumble, and you've set your cap too high..."
  • No. 17 - Trio - Sir Lewis, Dr. Brierly & Lady Virginia - "When in town you're safely landed, and the doctor far away..."
  • No. 18 - Duet - Rivers & Rose - "Unlucky the morn on which I was born the youngest of several brothers..."
  • No. 19 - Trio - Lady Edytha, Gladys & another - "We're awfully anxious to join in the fun..."
  • No. 20 - Carnival Chorus - "Let folly reign supreme today, for carnival is holding sway..."
  • No. 21 - Song - Rivers & Chorus - "Mesdames, messieurs, je suis Pierrot. (I'm nothing of the sort, you know...) "
  • No. 22 - Song - Goldfield - "Sunshine above, and sunshine in my heart! Laughter and love hold carnival today..."
  • No. 23 - Finale Act II - "I find it's really better far to keep my pranks for Bench and Bar..."

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