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"The Red Rose" (1911)

Music by Robert Hood Bowers (1877 - 1941)
Book and Lyrics by Harry B. and Robert B. Smith

ACT I   -   The Art School of M. Julian Duprez in Paris.

  • No. 1 - Opening Scene - "La, la, la..." etc. (whistles)   "Sh!  Taisez! ... Oh, Andrè!  Please be quiet!  Do stop that row!  Be still!  We cannot draw a thing..."
  • No. 2 - Duet - Lola, Dick and Chorus - "In Bohemia's kingdom, three rulers belong.  We acknowledge them all, boys - wine, women and song..."
  • No. 3 - Posing Scene - Lola and Chorus - "Lola, Lola, you must come and pose for us.  You're the model we like best;  you are diff'rent from the rest..."
  • No. 4 - Spanish Song - Lola - "Fair land full of old romances where all the nights are gay with dance and song;  dark eyes that with ardent glances reveal the love..."
  • No. 5 - Song - Lorimer and Chorus - "When a thoroughbred American like me ... Just like you ... Is inspired to take a journey over sea ... As they do..."
  • No. 6 - Duet - Lionel and Gyp - "There are many ways to win a man, and countless the arts that please; ... And ever since the world began, he's surrendered..."
  • No. 7 - Dance Duet - Zoë and Spiegel - "I still can hear that music so entrancing, when I went bounding out upon the stage, with my skirt a lace umbrella..."
  • No. 8 - Finale Act I - "So come along, ma cherie, come along with me, and we'll drop in at Maxim's or the Café de Paris.  A chansonette entrancing..."

ACT II   -   The Baron's Chateau - six months later.

ACT III   -   The Ball of the Four Arts.

Click here for the cast of characters.

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