MusicalOperettaRevivalBroadway
Opening Date
Jan 05, 1939
Closing Date
Closing date unknown
MusicalOperettaRevivalBroadway

ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
This production was composed of the following shows: Cox and Box, H.M.S. Pinafore
This production played in repertory with The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, Iolanthe, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience
Theatres
Martin Beck Theatre
(Jan 05, 1939 - Closing date unknown)
Description
A musical in One Act

Songs for Cox and Box are listed under Act 1

Cox and Box

Category: Musical, Operetta, Revival, Broadway
Setting: A room in Bouncer's house.
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Produced by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Based on the farce "Box and Cox" by John Maddison Morton; Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; Musical Director: Isidore Godfrey; Libretto by F.C. Burnand
John Dean
John James Box
A Journeyman Printer
William Sumner
James John Cox
A Journeyman Hatter
Richard Walker
Sergeant Bouncer
Late of the Dampshire Yeomanry, with military remi

H.M.S. Pinafore

Category: Musical, Comedy, Operetta, Revival, Broadway
Setting: Quarterdeck of H.M.S. Pinafore off Portsmouth.
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Produced by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Written by W. S. Gilbert; Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; Musical Director: Isidore Godfrey
John Dudley
Ralph Rackstraw
Marjorie Eyre
Cousin Hebe
Darrell Fancourt
Dick Deadeye
Radley Flynn
Bob Beckett
Evelyn Gardiner
Little Buttercup
Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman
Martyn Green
The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.
First Lord of the Admiralty
Leslie Rands
Captain Corcoran
Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore
Helen Roberts
Josephine
the Captain's Daughter
Richard Walker
Bill Bobstay
Boatswain
music by Arthur Sullivan; lyrics by Francis C. Burnand
(Unless otherwise noted)
Act 1
Sung By
Rataplan (Yes, yes, in those merry days)
Sergeant Bouncer
Stay, Bouncer, Stay
James John Cox and Sergeant Bouncer
Hush-a-bye, Bacon
John James Box
My Master Is Punctual
James John Cox
Who are you, Sir?
James John Cox, John James Box and Sergeant Bouncer
The Buttercup
James John Cox and John James Box
Three years ago
John James Box
Sixes
James John Cox and John James Box
My hand upon it
Act 2
Sung By
We sail the ocean blue
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
I'm called little Buttercup
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Little Buttercup
The Nightingale sigh'd for the moon's bright ray
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Ralph Rackstraw and Chorus
A maiden fair to see
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Ralph Rackstraw and Chorus
I am the Captain of the Pinafore
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Captain Corcoran and Men's Chorus
Sorry her lot
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Josephine
Over the bright blue sea Comes Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B.
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Women's Chorus
We sail the ocean blue (Reprise)
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Men's Chorus
I am the monarch of the sea
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., Hebe, Bill Bobstay and Chorus
When I was a lad
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. and Chorus
A British tar is a soaring soul
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Ralph Rackstraw, Bill Bobstay and Bob Beckett
Refrain, audacious tar, your suit from pressing
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Josephine and Ralph Rackstraw
Can I survive this overbearing?
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Principals and Chorus
Act 3
Sung By
Fair moon, to thee I sing!
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Captain Corcoran
Things are seldom what they seem
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Little Buttercup and Captain Corcoran
The hours creep on apace
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Josephine
Never mind the why or wherefore
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Josephine, Captain Corcoran and The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.
The merry maiden and the tar
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Captain Corcoran and Dick Deadeye
Carefully on tiptoe stealing
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Dick Deadeye, Captain Corcoran, Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, Hebe, The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. and Men's Chorus
Farewell, my own, Light of my life, farewell!
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Ralph Rackstraw, Josephine, The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., Hebe, Dick Deadeye, Bill Bobstay, Bob Beckett, Little Buttercup and Chorus
A many years ago, when I was young and charming
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Little Buttercup and Chorus
Oh joy, oh rapture unforseen
(lyrics by William S. Gilbert)
Principals and Chorus
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