• Overture

ACT I   -   Exterior of an Inn in the Pyrennes.

• No. 1 - Introduction and Chorus - "The glorious robe of Autumn spread o'er hillside and a thousand dales; with tints of gold and flaming red..."
• No. 2 - Song - George - "Under an oak one fine June morn, unostentatiously was born a babe, ordained for fickle fate to play with far from lightly..."
• No. 3 - Entrance and Song - Louis - "Ninette has taken heart..."  &  "For all you people know, I might be the heir apparent on a diplomatic mission..."
• No. 4 - Duo - Ninette and Louis - "It needs no poet, gentle maid, to eulogise your charms ... The compliments, my lord, you've paid fill me with strange alarms..."
• No. 5a - Chorus of Players - "La Fontaine! La Fontaine! La Fontaine!" etc... "Hey! the jolly fellow, oh, his fun is mellow; here he comes with sunny smile..."
• No. 5b - Song - La Fontaine and Chorus - "An author manager am I of a company artistic.  Some say the apple of my eye is the ultra realistic..."
• No. 6 - Scene - Ninette and La Fontaine - "When a maid applies for a part in a company such as mine, and has no particular line, I always consider my Art..."
• No. 7 - Song - Idalia - "Far o'er the mountains that cleave the blue skies lies the fair hamlet of Fancy.  There dwell the maidens with flashing black eyes..."
• No. 8 - Duo and Chorus - Louis and George - "When I was born I weighed ten stone ... 'Tis true, I held the scale ... So large was I in head and bone..."
• No. 9 - Duo - Idalia and Louis - "I am no queen, no sway hold I, no palace waits for me.  The verdant fields, the sun, the sky, and love, if love needs be..."
• No. 10 - Finale Act I - "Farewell!  provincial towns, farewell!  No more you'll see this company, the weary one-night stand farewell! ..."

ACT II   -   A glade near the King's palace.

• No. 11a - Introduction
• No. 12 - Song - Eugene - "Come, Venus and Hebe, adorn my bark and float with me.  Euterpe, thy lute bring, and bid the sirens to me sing..."
• No. 13 - Duo - Eugene, La Fontaine and Chorus - "I thought it very easy to sit down and write a play.  The sitting down was simple that I practis'd ev'ry day..."
• No. 14 - Quintette - Ninette, Idalia, Eugene, Louis, George and Chorus - "Ah!  list to me, I sing of love, I sing of love, my love for thee which I shall prove..."
• No. 15 - Song - George - "A bandit bold lived like a king, 'way in a forest deep;  of pining love none dared to sing, from care his heart to keep..."
• No. 16 - Quartette - Lord Chamberlain, La Fontaine, Louis and George - "Now Herodotus omits in his history to state that varieties were quite the thing in Athens..."
• No. 17 - Chorus and Song - Ninette and Court Ladies - "Titled widows all are we, each a brand new divorcée;  nothing for us but the stage..."
• No. 18 - Quintette - Eugene, Lord Chamberlain, La Fontaine, Louis and George - "A strange remark ... the day is dark ... when skies are blue and clear..."
• No. 19a - Entrance of the King - "All hail our smileless King!  Dejected monarch sad, to whom all woes doth cling, a laugh he never had..."
• No. 19b - Song - King and Chorus - "A regal sadness sits on me ... Sits on him!  Sits on him! ... Also a sombre gloom..."
• No. 20 - Song - Idalia - "A ray of golden sunlight fell across my life when you passed by.  I felt my heart with rapture swell..."
• No. 21 - Song - Louis and Chorus - "My royal dad had reached the age of forty years and five ... when his physician did engage to keep his King alive..."
• No. 22 - Finale Act II - "One equalled him... He's dead and gone... What, two? Absurd! ... Oh no, just one... Rely on him implicitly, he detests prevarication..."

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