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A selection of shows broken down into type. This is not an exhaustive or definitive list but merely a suggestion.
Potted biographies of musical theatre composers

Showlist S

SAN TOY

or The Emperor's Own

Book by Edward Morton, Lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross, Music by Sidney Jones; Additional music by Lionel Monckton

Daly's Theatre, London - 21 October, 1899
Daly's Theatre, Broadway - 1 October, 1900 (65 perfs)


Musical Numbers:

We'll Keep the Feast in Pynka Pong - Opening Chorus
The Mandarin - Quintette (Li, Wai Ho, Ah Wen, Yu Sam & Me Koui) & Chorus
The Lady's Maid - Dudley
A Posy From Over the Sea - Poppy
Six Little Wives - Yen How & Wives
The Petals of the Plum Tree - San Toy
A.B.C. - San Toy & Bobby
The Moon - Concerted Number
Pynka Pong - Poppy, Dudley, Tucker and Li
Love Has Come From Lotus Land - Bobby
When You Are Wed To Me - San Toy and Fo Hop
Samee Gamee - Dudley and Li
We Have Come Here Now - Finale Act I
We're the Cream Of Courtly Creatures - Chorus of Mandarins
Rhoda and her Pagoda - Dudley
The Emperor's Own - Chorus & Entrance of Bodyguards
By Our Majestic Monarch's Command - Sing Hi, Bobbie, Sir Bingo & Chorus
The Whole Story - Poppy
The Little China Maid - San Toy & Bobby
We Have Come To See - Wives
Pletty Little Chinee - Dudley & Li
Back To London - Poppy, Dudley, Tucker, Li, Preston & English Ladies
I Mean To Introduce It Into China - Yen How
The One In The World - San Toy
The Butterfly - Bobbie
Chinee Soge-Man - Li

Supplementary Numbers:

t's Nice To Be A Boy Sometimes - San Toy
Me Gettee Out Very Quick - Li
A Little Bit Of Fun - San Toy
Somebody - San Toy

Scenes:

Act 1 - A Street in Pynka Pong
Act 2 - A Hall In the Emperor's Palace, Peking.

Characters

San Toy - Daughter of Yen How
Captain Bobbie Preston - Son of Sir George Bingo Preston
Yen How - A Mandarin
Sir Bingo Preston - British Consul at Pynka Pong
Sing Hi - President of the Board of Ceremonies
Lieut. Harvey Tucker
Fo Hop - A Chinese Student
Fang - A Boatman
Hu Pi & Wai Ho - Jewellers of Pynka
Li Hi & Li Lo - Tartar Guards
Old Mandarin - At Court of Peking
Li
Poppy - Daughter of Sir Bingo
Dudley - Her Maid
Chu - A Widow
Wun Lung - Perpetual Corporal of the Emperor's Own
Ko Fan - Of the Emperor's Own
Yeng Shi, Me Koui, Siou, Shuey Pin Sing, Li Kiang & Hu Yu - Wives of Yen How
Mrs Hartley Streeter
Hon Mrs Hay Stackporle
Miss Mary Lambkin
Lady Pickleton

 


 
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