The Desert Song - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

Act I
  • High on a Hill – Sid and Riffs
  • The Riff Song – Pierre, Sid and Riffs
  • Ho, Bold Men of Morocco – Sid and Riffs (not in original Broadway production)
  • Margot – Paul and Soldiers
  • I'll be a Buoyant Girl – Susan
  • Why Did We Marry Soldiers? – Girls
  • French Military Marching Song – Margot and Chorus
  • Romance – Margot and Girls
  • Then You Will Know – Pierre and Margot
  • I Want a Kiss – Paul, Margot, Pierre and Chorus
  • It – Susan, Bennie and Girls (lyrics by Edward Smith)
  • The Desert Song – Pierre and Margot
  • Finale – Ensemble (includes Azuri's Dance)
Act II
  • My Little Castagnette – Clementina and Girls
  • Song of the Brass Key – Clementina and Girls
  • One Good Boy Gone Wrong – Benny and Clementina
  • Eastern and Western Love
    • a) Let Love Go – Ali and Riffs
    • b) One Flower in Your Garden – Sid and Riffs
    • c) One Alone – Pierre and Men
  • The Sabre Song – Margot
  • You Love Me – Pierre and Margot (not in original Broadway production)
  • Farewell and reprises – Pierre and Men
  • All Hail to the General – Margo, Paul, Birabeau and Girls
  • Let's Have a Love Affair – Susan, Bennie and Girls
  • Finale – Ensemble

Early versions of the show also included "Dreaming In Paradise," and "Love's Dear Yearning". Two songs from The Desert Song are among the operetta and Broadway musical songs lampooned in the 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine. "The Riff Song" and "The Desert Song" are the respective targets of "The Forest Rangers" (it also parodies several other "gallant warriors" songs, such as "Stout-Hearted Men"). "The Desert Song," a hero-sings-to-heroine waltz, is parodied by "You're the Fairest Flower," another hero-sings-to-heroine waltz.

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