The School Girl The School Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy , in two acts, composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Henry Hamilton and Paul M. Potter, and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor and others. It concerns a French school girl from a convent, who goes to Paris to help her lovesick friend. Through mistaken identity, she learns secrets that help her at the Paris stock exchange and ends up at a students' ball in the Latin Quarter . All ends happily. The musical was first produced in 1903 by George Edwardes and Charles Frohman at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London and ran for 333 performances there. It starred Edna May , Marie Studholme and Billie Burke . George Grossmith , Jr. succeeded G. P. Huntley as Ormsby St. Ledger. The show also played successfully on Broadway in 1904, with May and Grossmith, and on the national and international touring circuits. The most famous song from this show was "My Little Canoe".Roles and original cast Lillian Leigh – Edna May Mother Superior – Violet Cameron Marianne – Marianne Caldwell Norma Rochester, Mamie Reckfeller, Yolande, Violette, Mimi, Fifine – Norma Whalley , Billie Burke, Pauline Chase, Maude Percival, Ethel Negretti, Mamie Stuart Saaefrada – Clarita Vidal Kate Medhurst – Mildred Baker Jessie Campbell, Evelyn Somers, Mabel Kingston – Mary Fraser , Evelyn Bond, Alice Coleman Miss Yost – Lulu Valli Mrs. Marchmont – Barbara Huntley Cicely Marchmont – Marie Studholme Sir Ormesby St. Leger – G. P. Huntley General Marchmont – George Graves Peter Overend – J. A. Warden Corner – Gilbert Porteus Jacques De Crevert – Frank Walsh Tubby Bedford – James Blakeley George Sylvester, Adolphe Delapois, Jack Merrion, Edgar Verney – Charles Hampden, Murri Moncrieff, Talleur Andrews, J. Edward FraserMusical numbers Act I - Scene 1 - The Convent Lawn No. 1 - Chorus - "Gaily rings the bell for recreation, occupation we willingly pursue..." No. 2 - Cicely and Chorus - "I'm going to be a Honeymoon Girl, and leave my spinster days behind..." No. 3 - Mother Superior and Chorus - "When I was a girl like you, little girls , little girls..." No. 4 - Lilian - "We've formed a small battalion on a military plan, for none defeats a man as lovely woman can..." Act I - Scene 2 - The Open Stock Exchange No. 5 - Chorus - "We're going to be busy today, for the market is changing and chopping today..." No. 6 - Entrance of American Girls - "We say to you, good day to you, flotationers - Chickoo! chickoo! chickoo!..." No. 7 - Sir Ormesby - "There's a girl they call Belinda whom I met one day..." No. 8 - Tubby - "She had read Marie Corelli, and emphatically swore that she'd never wed a man..." No. 9 - - "The world has maidens sweet and pretty where'er we go; the gay grisettes of Paris city..." No. 10 - Lilian - "If you'd like to know what waiting is, then you may coquette with me..." No. 11 - Finale Act I - "We're going to be at least a nine days wonder, the rise is in 'Jumping Jacks' today..." Act II - Edgar Verney's Studio No. 12 - Chorus - "Étudiant des Beaux Arts , what though posterity may give unto your honour'd name..." No. 13 - Mamie Reckfeller - "Mamie, if you've nothing else to do, ma Mamie girl, I'm goin' to give an invitation..." No. 14 - Lilian - "Clytie is so unsophisticated; she has a modest smile, a drooping eye..." No. 15 - Lilian and Verney - "Can't you see that I'm in love ,and only wait till I can prove that I've been true?..." No. 16 - "There's nothing like a wife, they say, for driving worries and cares away..." No. 16a - Tarantella, Valse and Cake Walk No. 17 - Tubby - "I've been in love since seventeen, of course that's nothing new..." No. 18 - Lilian - "Our good Monsieur le Maire at a town that I come from in France was choosing out La Rosière ..."Score and libretto *
Popular articles Javier Milei - Argentine libertarian economist, author, radio conductor and public speaker sympathetic to the Austrian School of economic thought. He became widely known for his regular ...Jimmy Carter - American politician, philanthropist, and former farmer who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previ...UEFA Euro 2024 - The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship , commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024 , will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial internationa...Argentina - country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also b...Sam Altman - American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the former president of Y Combinator and now the CEO of OpenAI. Early life and education. ...Rosalynn Carter - American who served as First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For decades, she has been a leading advocate for numerou...Next Argentine presidential election - Next Argentine presidential election - presidential election in Argentina....Popular movies The Hunger Games (film) - 2012 American dystopian action thriller science fiction-adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’s 2008 novel of the same name. It is the first insta...untitled Captain Marvel sequel - part of Marvel Cinematic Universe....Killers of the Flower Moon (film project) - Killers of the Flower Moon - film project in United States of America. It was presented as drama, detective fiction, thriller. The film project starred Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert De Niro. Director of...Five Nights at Freddy's (film) - Five Nights at Freddy's - film published in 2017 in United States of America. Scenarist of the film - Scott Cawthon....Popular video games Minecraft - sandbox video game developed by Mojang Studios. Created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language and released as a public alpha for personal computers in 2...Grand Theft Auto V - 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 2008's Grand Theft ...Roblox - online game platform and game creation system that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in...Baldur's Gate III - upcoming role-playing video game developed and published by Larian Studios for Microsoft Windows and the Stadia streaming service. It is the third main game in the Baldur's ...Alan Wake - action-adventure video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios, released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The story follows best-selling thri...Fortnite - online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: ...Super Mario RPG - is a role-playing video game developed by Square and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1996. It was directed by Yoshihiko Maekawa and Chihiro Fujioka and produced by...Popular books Book of Revelation - The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, and consequently is also the final book of the Christian Bible. Its title is derived from the first word of the Koine Greek text: apok...Book of Genesis - account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, Israel's ancestors and the origins...Gospel of Matthew - The Gospel According to Matthew is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, rejected and executed in Israel, pronounces judgement on ...Michelin Guide - Michelin Guides are a series of guide books published by the French tyre company Michelin for more than a century. The term normally refers to the annually published Michelin Red Guide , the oldest...Psalms - The Book of Psalms , commonly referred to simply as Psalms , the Psalter or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim , the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and thus a book of th...Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes is one of 24 books of the Tanakh , where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim . Originally written c. 450–200 BCE, it is also among the canonical Wisdom literature of the Old Tes...The 48 Laws of Power - non-fiction book by American author Robert Greene. The book...Popular television series The Crown (TV series) - historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Tel...Friends - American sitcom television series, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast sta...Young Sheldon - spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory and begins with the character Sheldon...Modern Family - American television mockumentary family sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for eleven seasons, from September 23...Loki (TV series) - upcoming American web television miniseries created for Disney+ by Michael Waldron, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, shar...Game of Thrones - American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It...Shameless (American TV series) - American comedy-drama television series developed by John Wells which debuted on Showtime on January 9, 2011. It...
OWIKI.org . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.