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Libretto by Basil Hood
Music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German

Savoy Theatre, London
April 27, 1901

Illustrated with photographs of the original production.

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INTRODUCTION

ACT I

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1 & 2OPENING CHORUS AND DANCE -"Have ye heard the brave news"
RECIT. & SONG (Terence) - "My friends!...I'm descended from Brian Boru"
Dialogue
3SONG (Murphy) - "Of Viceroys though we've had"
Dialogue
4SONG (Bunn) - "If you wish to appear as an Irish type"
Dialogue
5TRIO (Molly, Terence & Murphy) - "On the heights of Glentaun"
Dialogue
6QUARTET (Rosie, Susan, Terence & Bunn) - "Two is company"
Dialogue
7 & 8ENTRANCE OF LORD LIEUTENANT, COUNTESS & CHAPLAIN
SONG (Lord Lieutenant) - "At an early stage of life"
Dialogue
9SONG (Countess) - "When Alfred's friends their King forsook"
Dialogue
10SONG (Rosie) - "Oh, setting sun, you bid the world good-bye"
Dialogue
11 & 12QUINTET (Rosie, Susan, Molly, Terence & Bunn)
           - "Their courage high you may defy"
ENTRANCE OF SOLDIERS - "That we're soldiers no doubt you will guess"
13SONG (Sergeant) - "Now this is the song of the Devonshire Men"
Dialogue
14ENTRANCE OF BUNN - "It is past my comprehension"
Dialogue
15FINALE - "Their fathers fought at Ramillies"

ACT II

16CHORUS - "Is there anyone approachin'?"
Dialogue
17CHORUS & DANCE - "Bedad, it's for him that we'll always employ"
Dialogue
18JIG
Dialogue
18aCHORUS - "Och, the spalpeen! Let him drown!"
Dialogue
19SONG (Terence) - "Oh have you met a man in debt"
Dialogue
20DUET (Rosie & Terence) - "'Twas in Hyde Park beside the Row"
Dialogue
21ENSEMBLE - "I cannot play at love"
Dialogue
22SONG (Bunn) - "Oh, the age in which we're living"
Dialogue
23CONCERTED PIECE - "Sing a rhyme of 'Once upon a time'"
Dialogue
24SCENA - "Listen! Hearken, my lover"
Dialogue
25 & 26SONG (Murphy) - "Goodbye my native town"
DUET (Molly & Murphy;) "I love you! I love you!"
Dialogue
27SONG (Terence) - "There was once a little soldier"
Dialogue
28FINALE - "With a big shillelagh"

Only Nos. 1 & 2 were completed by Sullivan. The other Sullivan numbers in the piece, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23 and 27, were harmonized and orchestrated by Edward German. German composed the Introduction and Nos. 9, 10, 13, 17, 18, 18a, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26. The Finale to Act II is made up of a section of No.4 and a section of No. 17.

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