Miss Dolly Dollars

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Miss Dolly Dollars is a musical comedy written in two acts with the book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and music by Victor Herbert. The musical concerns a wealthy American girl in Europe, who is sought after by bankrupt aristocrats.

After a tryout in Rochester, New York, the musical opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City, on September 4, 1905.

Dramatis Personæ

DOROTHY GAY (an American heiress known as "Dolly Dollars")	Lulu Glaser
LORD BURLINGHAM (in favor of an Anglo-American Alliance)	Melville Steward
FINNEY DOOLITTLE (an Educated Fool)	R. C. Herz
SAMUEL GAY (a Condensed Soup Magnate)	Charles Bradshaw
MRS. GAY (his better fifty percent)	Carrie Perkins
GUY GAY (who pays a fellow to study for him at Oxford)	Carter De Haven
BERTHA BILLINGS (Dorothy's maid with a fondness for Romance)	Olive Murray
CELESTE	Elsie Ferguson
LIEUT. VON RICHTER (of the German Army)	Henry Vogel
MIGGS (Lord Burlingham's valet)	Byron Ongley

HON. PERCY FITZBOODLE
MARQUIS DE BACCARAT
BARON VON RHEINHEISTER
COUNT RUNOFFSKY
COUNT CHIANTI
DUKE DA BOLERO
PRINCE UMSKYVITCH
CAPTAIN SHERIDAN BARRY

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(Members of the Club of Friendly Rivals)

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William Naughton
James Leahy
Carl Hartberg
James Reany
Enrico Oremonte
John Ardizone
Sidney Harris
Edward Leahy

HON. MONTAGUE BANK
HON. MAYLAND BANK

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(Eton Boys)

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Bessie Holbrook
Sadie Probst

MARGERY	Lillian Spencer
MILLICENT	Queenie Hewlitt

HELEN HASTINGS
FREDA DRESSLER
ESTELLE DE LANGE
NORAH M'CREE
RUTH DELAMERE
VENA RODRIGUEZ
MIRIAM ODELL
FRANCES MORTIMER

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(The Summer Girls)

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Paula Desmond
Elsa Rheinhardt
Vida Whitmore
Aline Redmond
Helen Marlborough
Leila Benton
Susanne Parker
Gabrielle Stahl

MIDI Files

Overture

ACT I - A Villa on the Thames at Henley.

No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Coursing down old Thames's waters, all of a summer's day, England's sons and fairest daughters gather with spirits gay..."
No. 2 - Trio - Mr. Gay, Mrs. Gay and Guy - "I'm happy to say I'm a self-made man; I have frequently told how I first began..."
No. 3 - Song - Doolittle - "Tho' I'm not of lofty station, I've a lib'ral education, and I know my Latin, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Greek..."
No. 4 - Entrance of Dolly, and Song - "Now prepare for trouble, from yonder comes the bubble, so danger threatens us, we clearly see..."
No. 5 - Entrance of Friendly Rivals' Club, and Song - Dolly - "Nobility's scions, society's lions, appear the perfect types of aristocracy..."
No. 6 - Song - Guy and Eight Girls - "Tell me, have you heard of Dolly Dollars? She's considered to be strictly up-to-date..."
No. 7 - Song - Lord Burlingham and Men - "Love at first sight is a well-known delusion and snare, I'm aware. Often it leads to a lot of confusion..."
No. 8 - Finale Act I - "Off to Paris where all is gay and bright; off to Paris where all is turned to night, where all the time is leisure..."

Lulu Glaser as Dorothy Gay

ACT II - Garden of a Hotel in Paris.

No. 9 - Entr'Acte
No. 10 - Opening Chorus - "With gaiety and jollity, to revel in frivolity, we come to Paris town, to merry Paris town..."
No. 11 - Duet - Dolly and Lieut. von Richter - "If you have much to say to me, Herr Ollendorf will useful be; you'll find within his pages..."
No. 12 - Quartette - Mrs. Gay, Mr. Gay, Celeste and Guy - "Sometimes it seems that ev'ryone you know is in disguise..."
No. 13 - Song - Dolly and Chorus - "I tell you the tale of the snow-white moth who once, on a night in June, looked up in the sky..."
No. 14 - Song - Samuel Gay and Girls - "Have you watched how people come into a hotel dining-room? They always have a worried look..."
No. 15 - Cigar Song - Lord Burlingham and Men - "If a pair of blue eyes have deceived you, and a pair of red lips said you nay..."
No. 16 - American Music - Doolittle, Celeste, Guy, Mr. & Mrs. Gay and Chorus - "The Germans have their waltzes, the Scotsmen have their flings..."
No. 17 - Circus Song - Dolly and Chorus - "When I drive my horses 'round the ring ... Pleasure and excitement it can bring..."
No. 18 - Finale Act II - Dolly and Men - "Fair one, we love you, and we adore you; we sigh on bended knee like knights of old..."

MIDI files

External Link: Miss Dolly Dollars at Wikipedia

American Musical Theatre

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