ACT I   -   The Gardens of the Hotel at Ylang Ylang.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "In Ylang Ylang where the ruby river rolls its billows..."
• No. 1a - Chorus Exit - "It's Roly Poly, Roly Poly, o'er the sea once more..."
• No. 2 - Song - Soo-Soo & Chorus - "In the days of the ancient long ago in a quaint little Chinese town..."
• No. 3 - Chorus - Entry of the Emperor, and Song - "Hail, hail, hail all hail!..."   (starts very quietly)
• No. 3a - Reprise for Exit - "And this is the hand that seeks a mate..."
• No. 4 - Sextette - Mr. & Mrs. Pineapple & Bridesmaids - "Three months ago we stepp'd aboard a great big ocean ship..."
• No. 5 - Song - Mrs. Pineapple & Chorus - "The à la girl is an English girl with lots of à la ways..."
• No. 6 - Nursery Rhymes Sextette - Tom, Fi Fi, Hi Lung, Mrs. Brown, Yen Yen and Mr. Pine - "Sing a song of sixpence..."
• No. 7 - Song - Fi Fi & Chorus - "I'm awfully partial to music, so I bought a piano one day..."
• No. 8 - Finale Act I - "Gather, gather, man and maiden come with bridal blessings laden..."

ACT II   -   Room in the Emperor's Palace.

• No. 9 - Opening Chorus - "With weary hearts we wait about, the bride to greet..."
• No. 10 - Song - Fi Fi & Chorus - "Some people sigh for beauty and some yearn for this and that..."   (five verses)
• No. 11 - Song - Soo Soo & Chorus - "Dolly was a baby just as others may be, with a pair of eyes of blue..."   (three verses)
• No. 12 - Song - Mr. Pineapple - "I dreamed a dream the other night, I thought that I had flown..."   (three verses)
• No. 13 - Octette - Emperor, Yen, Tom, Soo Soo, Mr. & Mrs. Pineapple, Fi Fi & Hi Lung - "There's nothing like a little pat..."
• No. 14 - Chorus - "Welcome, official mother-in-law, let the cymbals clang..."
• No. 15 - Duet - Soo Soo & Tom - "Along the way where lovers go the roses red are twining..."
• No. 16 - Duet - Hi Lung & Mrs. Pineapple ("Marie") - "We'll give some little tit-bits from the plays..."
• No. 17 - Duet - Emperor & Fi Fi - "Now once there was a Mandarin, who for a sweetheart yearn'd..."
• No. 18 - Song - Fi Fi & Chorus - "You no doubt heard of the happy home where music is ador'd..."
• No. 19 - Finale Act II - "For he is the bridegroom and she is the bride..."

Supplementary items

• No. 20 - Sestet - Hang Chow, Mi Mi, Hi Lung, Yen Yen, Chippee, & Fi Fi - "The force of good example is a power beyond dispute..."
• No. 21 - Song - "Maidee of Ohio" - "I'se a coloured lady and I've just come up to town..."
• No. 22 - Song & Chorus (singer unspecified) - "While passing through the busy streets of busy London town..."   (six verses)
• No. 23 - Cake Walk and Two-Step

Items 6, 20, 21 & 23 were composed by Ernest Vousden.   No. 7 was by Ernie Woodville, and No. 10 by George Dee.
No. 11 was composed by Ivan Caryll (1861-1921), and No. 22 was composed by Ernest Bucalossi (1863-1933).

Lyrics to songs: 1  1a  2  3  3a  4  5  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  22

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