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Patience (09/30/1918 - 04/12/1919)
music by Arthur Sullivan; lyrics by W. S. Gilbert
ACT 1
Song List Sung By
Twenty Lovesick maidens We  Chorus of Maidens
Love Feeds on Hope  Lady Angela
Go, Breaking Heart  Lady Ella
Still Brooding on their Mad Infatuation  Patience (a dairy maid)
I Cannot Tell what this Love may be  Patience (a dairy maid)
The Soldiers of our Queen  Chorus of Dragoons
If You Want a Receipt for that Popular Mystery  Colonel Calverley
In a Doleful Train  Lady Angela, Lady Ella and Reginald Bunthorne
Now is this not Ridiculous?  Chorus of Dragoons
Mystic Poet, hear our prayer  Lady Angela
Though my book I Seem to Scan  Reginald Bunthorne
Though so Excellently Wise  Lady Saphir
Oh, Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!  Reginald Bunthorne
When First I Put This Uniform On  Colonel Calverley
Am I Alone?  Reginald Bunthorne
If You're Anxious for to Shine  Reginald Bunthorne
Long Years Ago  Patience (a dairy maid) and Lady Angela
Prithee, Pretty Maiden, Willow, Willow, Waly  Patience (a dairy maid) and Archibald Grosvenor
Let the Merry Cymbals Sound  Chorus
Now Tell Us We Pray You  Chorus of Dragoons
Your Maiden Hearts  Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable
If There be a Pardon in your Heart  Patience (a dairy maid)
True Love Must be Single-Hearted  Patience (a dairy maid) and Reginald Bunthorne
I Hear the Soft Note of the Echoing Voice  Lady Ella, Lady Saphir, Lady Angela, Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable, Major Murgatroyd and Colonel Calverley
ACT 2
Song List Sung By
Sad Is That Woman's Lot  Lady Jane
Silvered Is the raven Hair  Lady Jane
Turn, oh Turn in this Direction  Chorus of Maidens
A Magnet Hung in a Hard-ware Shop  Archibald Grosvenor
Love Is a Plaintive Song  Patience (a dairy maid)
So Go to Him and Say to Him  Lady Jane and Reginald Bunthorne
It's Clear that Medieval Art  Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable, Major Murgatroyd and Colonel Calverley
If Saphir I Choose to Marry  Lady Angela, Lady Saphir, Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable, Major Murgatroyd and Colonel Calverley
When I Go out of Doors  Reginald Bunthorne and Archibald Grosvenor
I'm a Waterloo-House Young Man  Archibald Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens
After much Debate Internal  Principals and Chorus