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The Rainbow Girl is a musical comedy in three acts with book and lyrics by Rennold Wolf and music by Louis A. Hirsch which was produced by Klaw and Erlanger at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, on 1 April 1918 and transferred to the Gaiety Theatre, New York, on 17 June 1918.
Dramatis Personæ
| DAISY MEADE (a soubrette) | Laura Hamilton |
| FRANK SCUDDER (a stage manager) | William Clifton |
| BUCK EVANS (a comedian) | Billy B. Van |
| GUS NORTON (a New York theatrical manager) | Robert G. Pitkin |
| NEWTOWN RUSSET JONATHAN BALDWIN |
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(The Four Pippins) | { { { { |
Polly Bowman Ethel Delmar Dorothy St. Clair Edna Stillwell |
| ROBERT VERNON DUDLEY (Lord Wetherell) | Harry Benham |
| MOLLIE MURDOCK (of "The Rainbow Girl") | Beth Lydy |
| GIRL IN BLUE | Florence Delmar |
| CLERGYMAN | Frederick Solomon |
| MARTIN BENNET (a butler) | Sydney Greenstreet |
| SUSANNAH BENNET (a housekeeper) | Claire Greenville |
| HONORIA BENNET (a lady's maid) | Kathleen Lindley |
| ERNEST BENNET (a footman) | Harry Delf |
| JANE BENNET (a house maid) | Lenora Novasio |
| MATILDA BENNET (a kitchen maid) | Jane Callan |
| MARY ANNE BENNET (a scullery maid) | Marion Sitgreaves |
| SIMEON BENNET (a gardener) | Jesse Willingham |
| CHARLES BENNET (a cook) | Charles Fulton |
| ANASTASIA BENNET (a laundry maid) | Julie Eastman |
| JAMES BENNET (a coachman) | Charles Hall |
| JOHN BENNET (a flunkey) | Carlisle Blackton |
| MISS DUDLEY, the elder MISS DUDLEY, the younger |
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(Spinsters) | { { |
Jane Burby Margaret Merriman |
| MISS TERRIS | Miriam Medie |
| MISS GWENDOLIN | Marguerite St. Clair |
| ELECTRIC LIGHT INSPECTOR | William Clifton |
ACT I - Scene 1 - The Green Room of the Frivolity Theatre, London.
- No. 1 - Opening Song - Mollie (offstage) - "When you are near, girl, you bring me good cheer, girl..."
- No. 2 - Song - Daisy - "Girls get weary, girls get dreary, waiting to wed, and to the altar be led..."
- No. 3 - Duet - Mollie and Robert - "Though all the world should fail me, though pain and care assail me..."
- No. 4 - Song - Buck Evans - "In me you see the deepest depths of abject gloom..."
- No. 5 - Finaletto - Scene 1 - "Here comes the bride. Here comes the groom......"
ACT I - Scene 2 - Boudoir in Wetherell Hall, near Manchester, England -
one week later.
- No. 6 - Song - Robert and Girls - "I must confess that I would like to play and frolic with you girls all day..."
- No. 7 - Duet - Robert and Mollie - "When the world is lonely, dark and drear the skies, then it's you who only brighten with your eyes."
- No. 8 - Ensemble - Mollie and the Bennett family - "When you walk or you talk, always be genteel..."
ACT II - Drawing-room in Wetherell Hall - the following afternoon.
- No. 9 - Song - Ernest and Girls - "It seems unfair that you girls yourselves never can wear clothes upon your shelves..."
- No. 10 - Duet - Robert and Mollie - "When I'm with you, skies are all blue, life holds no sorrow or care..."
- No. 11 - Duet - Ernest and Jane - "I've got to journey far away from you and leave you..."
- No. 12 - Song - Daisy and Girls - "Much joy is found in ev'ry kind of dance, so when the band is playing, take a chance..."
- No. 13 - Finale Act II - Mollie and Chorus - "No longer can you serve Lady Wetherell..."
ACT III - Modern sun parlor and breakfast room in Wetherell Hall -
the following morning.
- No. 14 - Song - Daisy and Girls - "I sometimes think we wear too many clothes... That's true, we do! ..."
- No. 15 - Duet - Ernest and Jane - "When the Vampire gets you frantic, or when Chaplin cuts an antic..."
- No. 16 - Song - Mollie - "Beautiful lady, so snug and secure, looking contentedly from your high wall..."
- No. 17 - Finale Act III - "I'll think of you, and maybe you will think of me, and I'll be true as long as you are true to me..."
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