The School Girl

The School Girl was a musical comedy, in two acts, composed by Leslie Stuart (with additional songs by Paul Rubens) with a book by Henry Hamilton and Paul M. Potter, and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor and others. The musical was first produced in 1903 at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London and ran for 333 performances there, Starring Edna May, Marie Studholme and George Grossmith, Jr. The show also played successfully in New York and on the national and international touring circuits.

The most famous song from this show was "My Little Canoe."

Roles

*Lillian Leigh
*Mother Superior
*Marianne (A French Bonne)
*Norma Rochester, Mamie Reckfeller, Yolande, Violette, Mimi, Fifine (American Girls)
*Saaefrada (A Model)
*Kate Medhurst
*Jessie Campbell, Evelyn Somers, Mabel Kingston (School Girls)
*Miss Yost (The Typewriter)
*Mrs. Marchmont
*Cicely Marchmont (Her Daughter)
*Sir Ormesby St. Leger
*General Marchmont
*Peter Overend (Of the Open Stock Exchange)
*Corner (His Clerk)
*Jacques De Crevert (Clerk)
*Tubby Bedford
*George Sylvester, Adolphe Delapois, Jack Merrion, Edgar Verney (Artists)

Musical numbers

Act I - Scene 1 - The Convent Lawn
*No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Gaily rings the bell for recreation, occupation we willingly pursue..."
*No. 2 - Song - Cicely and Chorus - "I'm going to be a Honeymoon Girl, and leave my spinster days behind..."
*No. 3 - Song - Mother Superior and Chorus - "When I was a girl like you, little girls, little girls..."
*No. 4 - Song - Lilian - "We've formed a small battalion on a military plan, for none defeats a man as lovely woman can..."

Act I - Scene 2 - The Open Stock Exchange
*No. 5 - Opening Chorus - "We're going to be busy today, for the market is changing and chopping today..."
*No. 6 - Entrance of American Girls - "We say to you, good day to you, flotationers - Chickoo! chickoo! chickoo! ..."
*No. 7 - Song - Sir Ormesby - "There's a girl they call Belinda whom I met one day..."
*No. 8 - Song - Tubby - "She had read Marie Corelli, and emphatically swore that she'd never wed a man..."
*No. 9 - Song - (singer unknown) - "The world has maidens sweet and pretty where'er we go; the gay grisettes of Paris city..."
*No. 10 - Song - Lilian - "If you'd like to know what waiting is, then you may coquette with me..."
*No. 11 - Finale Act I - "We're going to be at least a nine days wonder, the rise is in 'Jumping Jacks' today..."

Act II - Edgar Verney's Studio
*No. 12 - Opening Chorus - "Étudiant des Beaux Arts, what though posterity may give unto your honour'd name..."
*No. 13 - Song - Mamie Reckfeller - "Mamie, if you've nothing else to do, ma Mamie girl, I'm goin' to give an invitation..."
*No. 14 - Song - Lilian - "Clytie is so unsophisticated; she has a modest smile, a drooping eye..."
*No. 15 - Duet - Lilian and Verney - "Can't you see that I'm in love,and only wait till I can prove that I've been true? ..."
*No. 16 - Quartette - "There's nothing like a wife, they say, for driving worries and cares away..."
*No. 16a - Tarantella, Valse and Cake Walk
*No. 17 - Song - Tubby - "I've been in love since seventeen, of course that's nothing new..."
*No. 18 - Song - Lilian - "Our good Monsieur le Maire at a town that I come from in France was choosing out La Rosière..."

External links

* [http://www.halhkmusic.com/schoolgirl.html Midi files and London cast list]
* [http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/british/composers/stuart.html Information about the composer]
* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=5903 Information about the Broadway production]
* [http://www.templeresearch.eclipse.co.uk/edna_may/SG.htm Photograph of the star, Edna May]