Scene: The cocktail lounge of RMS OPERATIC at sea
Cast
The Captain John Butt
Steward Roger May
Passengers
Jane Marett, Jeannette McDonald-Miller, Pamela Rogers, Cathy Hales, Bridget Munday, Denise Baugh, Katherine Chapman, Dorothy Collard, Joan Barrowcliffe, Sharon Hardie , Jenny Brenchley, Pam Hack, Polly Honeychurch, Jane Ambrose, Jo Murray, Alice Judge, Jean Hick, Wendy Carpenter, Ollie Embourne, Paul Baugh, Paul Buckley, Keith McDonald-Miller, Mike Whittle, Paul Jerome, Philip Brenchley, Mike Powell, Roger Jones, Ken Hick, Kevin Bunting, Stuart Hales
The Musical Menu
Soloists
1. Champagne
from the comic opera Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss 1874
Jane Ambrose
2. Song of the Nightclub Proprietress
A song by Sir John Betjeman with music by Madeline Dring 1976
Jane Ambrose
Jeannette McDonald-Miller
3. The way to treat a lady
from The Circus Girl with music by Lionel Monkton 1896
Jeannette McDonald-Miller
Kevin Bunting & Denise Baugh
4. Là ci darem la mano
The love duet from the opera Don Giovanni by W A Mozart 1787
Kevin Bunting & Denise Baugh
Keith McDonald-Miller
5. Little Aggie
A monologue by Stanley Holloway
Keith McDonald-Miller
6. When the budding bloom of May
Madrigal from the opera Haddon Hall. Words by Sydney Grundy, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan 1892
7. Whiffenpoof Song
The traditional closing number of the Yale University a capella singing group formed in 1909
Bridget Munday & Jane Marett
8. We’ll gather lilacs
A duet from the hit musical romance Perchance to Dream by Ivor Novello 1945
Bridget Munday & Jane Marett
9. Old Mother Hubbard
A traditional nursery rhyme with music by Alfred Wheeler c.1931, arranged by Mark Hartt-Palmer
Paul Baugh
10. The night I appeared as Macbeth
A popular music hall gem by William Hargreaves 1922
Paul Baugh
Cathy Hales, Wendy Carpenter & Pam Rogers
11 “A surprise from Chicago!”
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Cathy Hales, Wendy Carpenter & Pam Rogers
12. Puttin on the Ritz
A song with complex and provocative innovative rhythmic complexities by Irvin Berlin 1927, arranged by Mark Hartt-Palmer