ACT I - Sherry's Rooms.
- No. 1 - Introduction - Chorus of Tradespeople
- "We're the tradesmen coming in, always as the months begin, each with a little account too! ..."
- No. 2 - Chorus of Bohemians, Students and Models
- "We're Bohemians gay and clever, hi! hi! hi! hi! Comrades true who will not sever! Hi! hi! hi! hi! ..."
- No. 3 - Song - Andrew
- "I wrote to uncle: It is pleasant dreaming of home and married life, only my income just at present would not quite support a wife."
- No. 3a - Exit
- "We're Bohemians gay and clever, hi! hi! hi! hi! Comrades true who will not sever! Hi! hi! hi! hi! ..."
- No. 4 - Duet - Mistigrette and Leonard
- "Mistigrette! Leonard! Mistigrette! Leonard! I love you! You love me! Mistigrette! Leonard! I love you day and night! ..."
- No. 5 - Song - Pepita and Men
- "I have a heart that's fiery, very! For I'm Spanish and I'm hot! And in my veins runs special sherry if you rouse me, so do not! ..."
- No. 6 - Quartet - MacSherry, Barbara, Mistigrette and Leonard
- "The sight of ships, however still, will make me feel extremely ill, for if I were on board..."
- No. 7 - Finale Act I
- "Is there a bliss in the whole creation, free from all impure alloy? It is the sacred exhilaration found in our beautiful family joy! Ah!..."
ACT II - A Room in a Restaurant.
- No. 8 - Opening Chorus and Song - Kossuth
- "Far, far off beyond sea and land, where the Danube rolls its mighty waters, there, oh there, is my gipsy band..."
- No. 9 - Song - Leonard
- "Love has now the sole control through the whole of my soul; I can think of her alone, nothing more! All my former loves I must own..."
- No. 10 - Song - Barbara
- "In that costume you must not walk, my cousin said. It might excite unpleasant talk, my cousin said. Young ladies think it shocking..."
- No. 11 - Duet - Catherine and Joseph
- "At Torino on the market (sulla piazza) I was quite the belle (la pił bella ragazza!) when my father sat and drank Chianti..."
- No. 12 - Song - Mistigrette and Chorus
- "There are many styles of dressing smartly; Ancient Briton girls were painted partly; Africans assume 'the altogether'..."
- No. 13 - Trios - MacSherry, Catherine, Joseph, Mistigrette, Leonard and Andrew
- "Here I can be hidden, and I quite expect, anything forbidden I can soon detect..."
- No. 14 - Duet - Barbara and Andrew
- "Ah! cousin dear, this moment I have seen it; you are the hob, the kitchen fire, you know. (What?) No, of course, I didn't..."
- No. 15 - Finale Act II
- "Come on, and we will see if you stand up to me, I scorn to turn and flee. What will upshot be? If you could but agree to leave the case..."
ACT III - First Floor, Terminus Hotel.
- No. 16 - Nocturne - Octet
- "Good night! Around us closes night, that scatters stars above, bringing visions and dreams of roses..."
- No. 17 - Intermezzo
- No. 18 - Song - Ernestine and Chorus
- "The moonbeams were bright one beautiful night, on sea and esplanade, and out on the pier with nobody near..."
- No. 19 - Duet - Andrew and Barbara
- "If trouble should come back again, and clouds are looking black again, of getting a wetting you need have no fear! ..."
- No. 20 - Song - Andrew
- "I'm always, I confess, enamour'd more or less! My heart is ever tender and ready to surrender until it makes me woo a little girl, or two!"
- No. 21 - Scene - Barbara, Mistigrette, Pepita, Catherine and MacSherry
- "Not for any money would we miss such a very funny jest as this. If we're successful..."
- No. 22 - Finale Act III
- "Come to the meadow, the moonlight is fair, youp-lą, youp-lą, Catari, Catarina! I'll play the mandoline, dance with me there! ..."
Addenda - Extra numbers written and composed by Paul A. Rubens.
- No. 23 - Song - Barbara
- "A snail once liv'd inside a shell, right inside a shell! She wouldn't move, not even if you rang the front door bell..."
- No. 24 - Song - Andrew and Chorus
- "Oh! Sarah was a girl you know, a little bit short-sighted, who found the streets of London so extremely badly lighted..."
- No. 25 - Duet - Barbara and Andrew
- "Jack and Jill went up the hill, in search of married life ... Quite a model husband he, and she a perfect wife..."
- No. 26 - Sextet - Mistigrette, Leonard, Pepita, Andrew, Joseph and Barbara
- "Oh! what a lucky thing it is that old MacSherry's gone! ..."
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