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Peggy from Paris is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by George Ade and music by William Loraine. It opened at Wallack's Theatre, New York, on 10 September 10 1903.
Dramatis Personæ
| CAPTAIN ALONZO PLUMMER | W. T. Hodge | |
| (of Hickory Crick, the village dignitary) | ||
| HON. JABEZ FLANDERS (the village orator) | Dan Baker | |
| WALT QUACKENBUSH (the village joker) | Goodale Dickerman | |
| JIM PEASLEY (the village station agent) | E. H. O'Connor | |
| LUTIE PLUMMER (the village soprano) | Guelma L. Baker | |
| MRS. HOMER KETCHAM (the village news bureau) | Mina Schwartze | |
| LEM HARVEY (the village tenor) | Chas. L. Welch | |
| CICERO J. GRAMPIS (a Napoleon of the drama) | Fred Lennox | |
| MONTAGUE FISH (a banker with private ambition) | Geo. A. Beane | |
| ALEXANDER NERVEEN (collegian) | John B. Park | |
| REGINALD HICKEY (a useful boy) | Arthur Deagan | |
| M. HOMMARD M. FOLIES-BERGERE M. BON-BON |
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(of the Franco American League) | { { { |
Dan Baker G. Dickerman E. H. O'Connor |
| PEGGY PLUMMER (known as Mlle. Fleurette Caramelle) | Helen Bertram |
| SOPHIE BLOTZ (Mlle. Fleurette Caramelle's maid) | Josie Sadler |
| MRS. MONTAGUE FISH (a wife) | Alice Hegeman |
| LILY ANN LYNCH (the home-grown article) | Helen Hale |
ACT I - Scene 1 - Parlor of the Commercial Hotel, Hickory Crick, Illinois -
The Old Time Party.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Happy, happy Illinois, land of milk and honey, where existence never cloys..."
- No. 2 - Song - Lutie and Chorus - "Lullabies are out of date since I went to the music school..."
- Nos. 3 & 4 - Finale and Song - Plummer and Chorus - "Goodbye, goodbye, perhaps you'll ne'er return..."
ACT I - Scene 2 - The stage of the Paragon Theatre, Chicago -
The getting together of the Plummers.
- No. 5 - Opening Chorus and Solo - Lily - "What ho! ev'ry story must have a beginning, that's why we are singing to you..."
- No. 6 - Song - (singer unspecified) - "I thought I was wise to the whole bunch o' fairies..."
- No. 7 - Song - Alexander and Students - "There are no days like the good old days when we were college chums..."
- Nos. 8 & 9 - Song - Grampis and Chorus - "From my earliest youth I longed for the day..."
- No. 10 - Duet - Lutie and Grampis - "Like a breath from the flower strewn prairie; like a breeze from the woodland far..."
- No. 11 - Chorus - "Welcome! Welcome, fair Mam'selle! Though in French we cannot tell what we really think of you..."
- No. 12 - Song - Peggy and Chorus - "She is a damsel who's known as a Mam'selle, her home in belle Paree..."
- No. 13 - Finale Act I - "Most entrancing foreign lady, we are honored by your presence here today..."
ACT II - Scene 1 - Reception Room of Peggy's Apartments, Auditorium Hotel.
- No. 14a - Opening
- No. 14b - Entrance of Chappies, Managers & Autograph Girls - "How doth the busy gilded youth improve each shining hour?"
- No. 15 - Song - Sophie and Chorus - "One day I went to the Saengerfest on the banks of the dear old Rhine..."
- No. 16 - Duet - Alexander and Peggy - "Oh, why does jealous men suspect there's something wrong..."
- No. 17 - Sextet - Lutie, Harriet, Grampis, Alexander, Reginald and Plummer - "Sing of the fields of clover hay..." (5 verses)
- No. 18 - Janitor Song - Grampis and Chorus - "The Shah of Persia on his throne, he isn't one, two, three..."
- No. 19 - Song - Grampis and Chorus - "There was a time in days of yore when marriage was no joke..." (3 verses)
ACT II - Scene 2 - Honeymoon Terrace - The dress rehearsal of "King Janitoro."
- No. 20 - Song - Peggy and Girls - "Life is short and youth so brief a span. Years flit by and, ah! so sad the man..."
- No. 21 - Song - Reginald, Alexander and Male Chorus - "Where the highballs grow and the pool-balls roll..."
- External Link
- Vocal Score at the Internet Archive
Page modified 11 February 2017