CAST: • Stephen Gorelle • Julie • Louise Panache • David Warren • Gabrielle Girard • Blonde • Doctor Hoffman • Carl von Schriner • Fruit Seller • Sebastian • Café Singer • Lisette Sargon • Michael O'Rourke • Priest • Refugee • Major Lutzen • Prefect of Police • Itinerent Musician • German Soldier • Pierre Sargon • Ballet Characters • Characters in the scene from La Comtesse MUSICAL NUMBERS: ACT I • Happy Days - Louise Panache • Someday (We Shall Meet Again) - Gabrielle Girard • Madame Louisa - The Redhead • You Must Never Say Goodbye - The Fruit Seller & Gabrielle • Music At Midnight - The Café Singer • Very Odd Fish - Lisette - The Fruit Seller • Pedro the Fisherman - The Fruit Seller • Festival Dance - The Dancers • The Song of the Sunrise - Gabrielle Girard ACT II • A Serenade for Sale - The Itinerant Musician • Finale Act I of Gay’s (Gabrielle) Operetta “La Comtesse” - Gabrielle, Lisette, The Milkmaid, The Soldier, The Wine Seller and the company • April in the Spring of Love - Lisette • We Must Never Say Goodbye • Follow the Drum • For the First Time (I Have Fallen in Love) INSTRUMENTATION: Flute, Oboe, 2 Bb Clarinets, Bassoon; 2 Horns, 2 Bb Trumpets, Trombone: Percussion, Harp; Strings. SCENES AND SETTINGS Act I • Scene 1-A Studio in Paris, July, 1937 • Scene 2-Gabrielle Girard’s Villa overlooking a Street in Lisbon 1942 • Scene 3 On the way to the Quayside at Valero. The next evening • Scene 4-Tho Quayside. Late that evening ACT II • Scene 1 - A Station Café on the Franco-Spanish Frontier - One week later • Scene 2 - The Stage of the Mogador Theatre, Paris. Some weeks later • Scene 3 - The Offices of the Prefect of Police. The next morning • Scene 4 - Gabrielle’s Studio. A fortnight later • Scene 5 - Backstage of the Mogador Theatre. The next night. • Scene 6 - The Mogador Theatre - during the performance. Later the same night. The actionof the play takes place during the summer months of 1942 Libretto and Vocal Score on Sale
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