THE CO-OPTIMISTS
Revue originally devised by Davy Burnaby. Music and Lyrics: Melville Gideon, Clifford Grey, Irving
Berlin, Philip Braham, Vivian Ellis, William Helmore, Ivy
St Helier, Laddie Cliff, Austin Melford, Greatrex Newman,
Arthur Schwartz, Clifford Seyler, et
al.
1st Season: Royalty Theatre, London - 27 June 1921 (500
perfs)
Between 1921 and 1935 there were eight editions of the show
featuring the following cast members, not all of whom appeared
in each production:
Cast:
Davy Burnaby, Betty Chester, Gilbert Childs, Laddie
Cliff, Mimi Crawford, Melville Gideon, Stanley Holloway, Mary Leigh,
Elsa Macfarlane, Austin Melford, Phyllis Monkman, Herbert
Mundin, Elsie Randolph, Cyril Ritchard, Babs Valerie, Clifford
Witley
The Programmes were selected from the following:
- Tampa Bay (Gideon-Cliff)
- Sing a happy song (Gideon-Cliff)
- Ghost of a chance (Gideon-Grey-Cliff)
- Wild man of Borneo
- Don't let 'em scrap the British Navy (Gideon-Weston)
- Isadore (Fisher-Rice)
- We'll go to church on Sunday (Gideon-Adams-Arthurs)
- Conversation
(Hedley)
- Clocks
- A little bit of
this and a little bit of that
- Shopping (Gideon-Seyler)
- Sea fever
- Down love lane (Gideon)
- The missus and I
- Dream days
- Burnt sugar (A triple rag) (Gideon)
- If Winter comes (Gideon-Grey)
- Meanderin'
- Amapu (Gideon-Knoblock)
- There's only one girl
- Wun Lung Fu (Gideon)
- Ula Lulu Lu
- Amapu
- On the banks of The Nile (Gideon-Debean)
- I'm tickled to death I'm single (Gideon-Seyler)
- Midsummer madness
- The cobbler
- Tommy the whistler (Melvin)
- You're
the sort of girl (Cliff-Hedley)
- I ain't a-goin' no
more a-roamin'
- Pierrot moon (Gideon)
- Olga Petrovotski
- Memory street (Macfarlane-Seyler)
- Miss Lemon (Braham)
- Golfing love (Gideon-Grey)
- London Town
(you haunt me) (Gideon-Ellingsworth)
- Secrets
- Prairie moon
- Lena (Gideon-Seyler)
- Spare a little love
- I never
realised (Gideon-Ross)
- Alouette
- Spare a little love
- I've got you and you've got me (Ellis-Grey)
- Leave a lot
of time for love (Gideon-Seyler)
- Battersea
- Almina
- The flower I love the best
- There may be days
- I want somebody (Gideon-Grey)
- Iceland (Gideon-Seyler)
- The girl in the crinoline gown
(Gideon-Seyler)
- You forgot to remember
(Berlin)
- I've fallen in love with a voice (Gideon-Newman)
- Love them all a little bit
(Gideon-Seyler)
- Texas love
- The longest day
- Funny little tune
- Once upon a time
- To pass the time away
- The tale of a guinea pig (Gideon)
- Pirate's lullaby
- The pirate song
- The wheel-tapper (Charles-Seyler)
- The blackest man I know (Clarke)
- To think such things could
happen in old England
(Weston-Lee)
- Raggedy man
- You've such a lot (Astaire-Melford)
- Cloze-props
- Alouette (Melvin)
- Till the wheel comes off
- Roundabouts and swings
- The land you've never heard of (Gideon-Melford)
- Prairie
moon
- The man who smokes a pipe ( Weston-Lee)
- Britain for the British ( Weston-Lee)
- Come to the
cook-house door (Braham-Hoare)
- Coalin' (Helmore)
- Loving the wrong girl (Gideon-Spero)
- All alone (Berlin)
- I wonder what's become of Sally? (Yellen-Ager)
- They catch
'em young (Gideon-Newman)
- Prehistoric maid
- I love you so
- The rich man drives by (Weston-Lee)
- Tears (Weston-Lee)
- I wonder where my baby is tonight? (Kahn-Donaldson)
- Why
couldn't it be poor little me?
(Jones-Kahn)
- Rolling stone
- I shall remember your kisses (Gideon-Grey)
- I used to sing (Gideon)
- Always (Berlin)
- Thank the moon (Gideon-John)
- Lindy Lou (Gideon)
- Lacquer lady (Gideon-Seyler)
- Amsterdam (Gideon)
- Cheerio!
- I'm tickled to death I'm single
- M'yes, m'no (Gideon-Burnaby)
- Current puns (Hedley-Melvin)
- Down with the whole darn lot
- I shall remember your kisses
- Don't let 'em scrap the British Navy
- Coal black mammy (St Helier-Cliff)
- The roast beef of old England
- The moment I saw you (Dietz-Newman-Schwartz)
- Sunday
afternoon (Newman-Schwartz)
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