Ruddigore - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

• Original Overture (arranged by Hamilton Clarke includes "I once was as meek", "Oh, why am I moody and sad?", "Welcome, gentry", "The battle's roar is over", and "When a man has been a naughty Baronet")
• Revised Overture (arranged by Geoffrey Toye, 1920; includes "I once was as meek", "When the night wind howls", "I know a youth", "My eyes are fully open", "I shipped, d'ye see" and Hornpipe)

Act I

• 1. "Fair is Rose" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 2. "Sir Rupert Murgatroyd" (Hannah and Chorus)
• 3. "If somebody there chanced to be" (Rose)
• 4. "I know a youth" (Rose and Robin)
• 5. "From the briny sea" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 6. "I shipp'd, d'ye see, in a revenue sloop" (Richard and Chorus)
• 6a. Hornpipe
• 7. "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin and Richard)
• 8. "The battle's roar is over" (Rose and Richard)
• 9. "If well his suit has sped" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 10. "In sailing o'er life's ocean wide" (Rose, Richard, and Robin)
• 11. "Cheerily carols the lark" (Margaret)
• 12. "Welcome, gentry" (Double Chorus)
• 13. "Oh, why am I moody and sad?" (Sir Despard and Chorus)
• 14. "You understand? I think I do" (Richard and Sir Despard)
• 15. Finale Act I
  • "Hail the bride of seventeen summers" (Ensemble)
  • Madrigal, "When the buds are blossoming" (Ensemble)
  • "When I'm a bad Bart, I will tell taradiddles!" (Robin and Chorus)
  • "Oh, happy the lily" (Ensemble)

Act II

• 16. "I once was as meek" (Sir Ruthven and Adam)
• 17. "Happily coupled are we" (Rose and Richard)
• 18. "In bygone days" (Rose with Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 19. "Painted emblems of a race" (Sir Ruthven, Sir Roderic, and Chorus of Ancestors)
• 20. "When the night wind howls" (Sir Roderic and Chorus)
• 21. "He yields, he yields" (Chorus)
• 21a. (original) "Away, remorse!" ... "For thirty-five years I've been sober and wary" (Robin)
• 21a. (replaced) "Away, remorse!" ... "Henceforth all the crimes" (Robin) (The original song was replaced about a week into the original run. For the history of this number, see Versions.
• 22. "I once was a very abandoned person" (Margaret and Despard)
• 23. "My eyes are fully open" (Margaret, Sir Ruthven, and Despard)
• 24. "Melodrame"
• 25. "There grew a little flower" (Hannah with Sir Roderic)
• 26. Finale Act II (Ensemble)
  • "When a man has been a naughty baronet"
  • "For happy the lily" (reprise) (Ensemble) (See Versions).

"My eyes are fully open" (with some changed lyrics) was used in Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance. The tune of the song is also used as "The Speed Test" in the 2002 musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.