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It Happened in Norland is a musical comedy in a prologue and two acts with book and lyrics by Glen MacDonough and music by Victor Herbert which opened at the Lewis M. Fields Theatre, New York, on 5 December 1904.
Dramatis Personæ
| HUBERT (the long lost brother of Katherine Peepfogel) | Lew Fields | |||
| PRINCE GEORGE OF NEBULA | Harry Davenport | |||
| (who is ordered by the Czar to marry Queen Elsa) | ||||
| DUKE OF TOXEN (Prime Minister of Nordland) | Joseph Herbert | |||
| BARON SPARTA | Harry Fisher | |||
| (Minister of War and Police, and enemy to the Duke of Toxen) | ||||
| CAPTAIN SLIVOWITZ (his chief assistant) | Joseph Carroll | |||
| PRINCESS ALINE (Queen Elsa's aunt) | Gertrude Whitty | |||
| DR. OTTO BLOTZ (Dermatologist and proprietor of Blotz's Pain Killer) | Julius Steger | |||
| PARTHENIA SCHMITT (a country girl, maid to the Princess Aline) | Bessie Clayton | |||
| HUGO VON ARNIM (Lieutenant in the Royal Body Guard) | Charles Gotthold | |||
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| DR. POPOFF (proprietor of Popoff's Sanitarium) | William Burress | |||
| CAPTAIN GATLING (of the United States Navy) | William Burress | |||
| DUCHESS HELENE (sister of the Duke of Toxen) | Indiola Arnold | |||
| MAQUISE FRANZISKA (Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elsa) | May Naudain | |||
| RUDOLF (a peasant, Parthenia's Sweetheart) | Frank O'Neill | |||
| PRINCE KARL (in love with Queen Elsa) | Frank O'Neill | |||
| MISS HICKS (First Secretary of the American Embassy at Nordland) | Pauline Frederick | |||
| COUNTESS POKOTA (Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elsa) | Pauline Frederick | |||
| KATHERINE PEEPFOGEL | Marie Cahill | |||
| (American Ambassadress to the Court of Nordland) | ||||
PROLOGUE - The Railway Station at Kronenberg, Nordland.
ACT I - Promenade at Elsa Bad, Nordland.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Now let 'Long Live the Queen' be our song; sing it loud, sing it clear, sing it strong..."
- No. 2 - Song - Prince George and Girls - "Oh, she first appeared in Eden, did the woman in the case..."
- No. 3 - Song - Prince George and Chorus - "When life seems gray, and dark the dawn, and you are blue..."
- No. 4 - Entrance and Song - Doctor Blotz and Chorus - "Give ear, give ear, draw near, draw near..."
- No. 5 - Song and Dances - Baron Sparta and Girls - "Slippery James was a crafty crook, at larceny most gifted..."
- No. 6 - Melodramatic Music
- No. 7 - Duet - Prince George and Parthenia - "I know a craft that needs a crew, ere she can skim the rolling blue..."
- No. 8 - Finale Act I - "As commanderess in chief, I shall first improve the manners of the men beneath our banners..."
ACT II - Terrace of Queen Elsa's Palace, Kronenberg - the next day.
- No. 9 - Opening Chorus - "Folly is our king! To his rule we bow, tribute to him now we bring!"
- No. 10 - Song - Franziska and Chorus - "Beneath the linden boughs, fair in their summer green..."
- No. 11 - Song and Dance - Parthenia - "Those lady killing gentlemen who spend their time in hunting hearts..."
- No. 12 - Chorus of Girls - "If ev'ry day were Saturday, how happy we would be; each Saturday a matinee we'd see..." (3 verses)
- No. 13 - Song - Katherine and Chorus - "Bandana Land - oh, it ain't upon the maps, it's the land of chicken fightin'..."
- No. 14 - Finale Act II - "As the commanderess-in-chief she wills the band to play..."
Addendum
- No. 15 - Additional song - Katherine - "I never speak ill of a friend at any time or place..." (3 verses)
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