San Toy - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

ACT I - A Street in Pynka Pong

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "On China's empire shining bright, the moon will reach its full tonight..."
• No. 2 - Quintette - Li, Wai Ho, Ah Wen, Yu Sam & Me Koui - "Of noble kin is the mandarin..."
• No. 3 - Song - Dudley - "A modern lady's maid who serves a modern lady has got to know her trade..."
• No. 4 - Song - Poppy - "Once I was free to roam over the fields at home..."
• No. 5 - Song - Yen How & Wives - "Oh, my name is Yen How, I'm a Mandarin great..." (seven verses)
• No. 6 - Song - San Toy - "Where the plum-tree flower'd gaily in the garden came an Englishman to meet a little maid..."
• No. 7 - Duet - San Toy & Bobbie - "Oh my lover, you are clever smart but you've never taught me yet..."
• No. 8 - Concerted Number - "Have you heard there's a girl in the moon? ..."
• No. 9 - Quartette - Poppy, Dudley, Tucker amp; Li - "You cannot think how dull it is where fashion plates are nullities..."
• No. 10 - Song - Bobbie - "Dear little maid, San Toy, child of the morn are you..."
• No. 11 - Duet & Scena - San Toy & Fo Hop - "When you are wed to me ... Far sooner dead I'd be..."
• No. 12 - Duet - Dudley & Li - "Your marriages here are certainly queer, I do not see what's the attraction..."
• No. 13 - Finale Act I - "We have come here now to renew our protestation..."

ACT II - Hall in Emperor's Palace at Peking

• No. 14 - Solo & Chorus - Sing Hi & Mandarins - "We are the cream of courtly creatures, mighty mandarins..."
• No. 15 - Song - Dudley - "Rhoda Rye was a London lass, taking and trim and tidy..."
• No. 16 - Chorus - "Make room for the Emperor's Own, imposing and splendid, who guard the Imperial Throne..."
• No. 17 - Concerted Number - "At our majestic monarch's behest, welcome the whole barbarian band..."
• No. 18 - Song - Blanche and Chorus - "How are English husbands won? Would you like to know?..."
• No. 19 - Pas Seul
• No. 20 - Duet - San Toy & Bobbie - "As I'm a China maid, and you're an Englishman..."
• No. 21 - Entrance of Wives - "We have come to see (squeak) what the palace life is..."
• No. 22 - Chinese Duet - Dudley & Li - "Pletty littee Chinee, welly nice and tiny, livee on a mantel shelf..."
• No. 23 - Quartette - Poppy, Tucker, Dudley, Li & Chorus - "What joy to know a month or so will see us in town again..."
• No. 24 - Song - Yen How & Chorus - "I used to think a Chinaman was twenty times as fine a man..." (four verses)
• No. 25 - Song - Bobbie - "A many maidens sweet and tender, and fair there are beneath the sun..."
• No. 26 - Song - San Toy - "A butterfly, spreading his shining wing, went fluttering forth in the golden spring..."
• No. 27 - Song - Li - "Blitish sojeman in led, ladie's muffee top-side head, ah!..." (four verses)
• No. 28 - Finale Act II - "Vain was the fond endeavour love and its bond to sever! ..."

Supplementary Numbers

• No. 29 - Song - San Toy - "Little China maids, till their beauty fades, must be hidden..."
• No. 30 - Song - Li - "Life is a mouse trap, open wide; man is the mouse what walk inside..."
• No. 31 - Song - San Toy - "It's very clear, before I came here this wasn't a lively spot..."
• No. 32 - Song - San Toy - "From a country far in the golden west a certain somebody came..."