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 MERCENARY MARY
Book and lyrics by William B. Friedlander & Isabel Leighton. Music
by Con Conrad & William B. Friedlander
based on Herbert Hall Winslow and Emil Nyatray's farce What's Your
Wife Doing?
London Hippodrome, 7 October, 1925 (262 perfs.)
Synopsis
Chris and Mary Skinner had married despite
the objections of Chris's grandfather. They fear he will disinherit them
so they decide to stage a divorce, get back in the will, and then quietly
remarry. Chris's friend, Jerry, agrees, for a fee, to play co-respondent
in his apartment. Mary is so nervous she drinks too much and almost spoils
everything, but grandfather relents and all ends well.
Musical Numbers
- Beautiful Baby
- Charleston Mad
- Cherchez la Femme
- Come Along, Everything's Going To Be All Right
- Dipping in the Moonlight
- Give a Little, Get a Little Kiss
- Honey, I'm In Love With You
- I Am Thinking of You
- I Want To Be A Chaste Woman
- I'm A Little Bit Fonder
- I'm Going to Dance at Your Wedding
- Just You and I and Baby
- Mercenary Mary
- Over a Garden Wall
- That's When a Fellow Needs a Friend
- They Still Look Good To Me
- Tie a String Around Your Finger
- Tomorrow (based on Chopin's Nocturne #12)
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