A Lonely Romeo is a musical comedy with book by Harry B. Smith and Lew Fields, lyrics by Robert B. Smith and music by Malvin M. Franklin and Robert Hood Bowers. It was produced at the Shubert Theatre, New York, on 10 June 1919.

Cast of Characters

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PROLOGUE   -   In front of the Shimmering Pheasant Restaurant, at 4 a.m.

• No. 1 - Introduction - Rain Storm
• No. 2 - Song - Ananias - "What a night!  What a night!  Not a star seen in sight.  How it rains!  How it pours!  How I envy the people in doors! ..."
• No. 3 - Duet - Marcelle and Tom - "When on a rainy day dear girls in gay array go running helter skelter to gather at a matinee, then we all have a view..."

ACT I   -   Interior of Tripp's Hat Store on Fifth Avenue, 10 minutes later, and during the morning.

• Nos. 4 & 5 - Ensemble, and Song - Kitty - "Hurry! we've no time to spare; set those here! put those there!  For the customers prepare.  They will soon appear..."
• No. 6 - Duet - Sybil and Gilbert - "I think it is time that you named the day when you will become my bride ... Perhaps in September, or maybe November..."
• No. 7 - Trio - Larry, Kitty and Gilbert - "I've met a lot of pretty girls, but none compares with you ... I wish I could believe you! ... Ask him if it is true..."
• No. 8 - Song - Mazie - "In the daytime, when the other men are counting dividends, and busy fighting for the pelf, then the college boy gets busy calling..."
• No. 9 - Song - Mazie and Boys - "All the gentlemen I see are so very, very good to me, that it's hard to pick and choose - which to keep and which refuse..."
• No. 10 - Finale Act I - "Close up the shop and bolt the door, and you may lead me to your candy store ... No work today, hip, hip, hooray!  Come on and beat it..."

ACT II   -   Gilbert Grant's Ice Cream and Candy Emporium - the same afternoon.

• No. 11 - Opening Chorus - "Just think of working in a candy store, in a candy store, in a candy store.  We've worked for nothing for a year or more..."
• No. 12 - Song - Sybil and Chorus - "When your heart is set on a certain pet whose heart isn't set on you, then you lie awake, just for her sweet sake, wondering..."
• No. 13 - Daisy Song - Kitty - "Does it ever vex you, worry and perplex you, whether you're in love or you are not?  Fearing you may blunder, do you ever wonder..."
• No. 14 - Slow Fox Trot
• No. 15 - Quintet - Alexina, Maizie, Gilbert, Fripp and Wintergreen - "Soon we will have a home of our own, and live all alone like Darby and Joan..."
• No. 16 - Candy Eating Scene - Wintergreen, Kitty and Mazie - "I feel so funny, I feel so funny, I feel I want to sing and shout..."
• No. 17 - Candy Jag Ensemble - "Oh what's the matter?  Oh what's the matter?  Oh what's the matter with you?  You're looking awful!  You must be feeling blue..."

ACT III   -   House and garden at Pelham Manor - a few hours later.

• No. 18 - Singing and Dancing School
• No. 19 - Song - Mazie and Chorus - "Love is something ev'ryone would die for, dear to ev'ry mind, but the sort of love that we sigh for we can never find..."
• No. 20 - Song - Sybil, with Tom and Chorus - "I've got a rose clad balcony that would tempt a Juliet ... I've got a moon just made for me, in fact my scene is set ..."
• No. 21 - Finale Act III - "Will O' Wisp, your brilliant shimmering shines like a star;  Will O' Wisp, your golden glimmering leads us afar.  Led onward by your glare..."

No. 1 was arranged for the Piano by J. Bodewalt Lampe. Nos. 2, 3, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 20 were composed by Malvin M. Franklin. Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 14 were composed by Robert Hood Bowers. Nos. 19 and 21 were composed by Malvin M. Franklin and Otis Spencer.

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