Madame Pompadour

An operetta in 3 Acts by RUDOLF SCHANZER and ERNST WELISCH. Music by LEO FALL.

Berliner Theater, Berlin 9 September, 1922.
Carltheater, Vienna 2 March 1923
Daly's Theatre, London - 20 December, 1923. Adaptation by Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham; Lyrics by Harry Graham

Cast

The cast shown is for the original London production.

KING LOUIS XV - BERTRAM WALLIS
RENÉ, COMTE D'ESTRADES - DEREK OLDHAM
MAUREPAS (Minister of Police) - LEONARD MACKAY
POULARD (his Assistant) - LEONARD RUSSELL

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PRUNIER (Landlord of the "Nine Muses") - NOEL COLNE
COLLIN (Pompadour's Chamberlain) - EDMUND D. LA TOUCHE
AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR - LOUIS HARRISON
LIEUT. CORNEILLE (In Command of the Guard) - DONALD MATHER
BOUCHER (Court Painter) - FRED PEDGRIFT
TOURELLE (Porcelain Manufacturer) - DESMOND ROBERTS
JACQUES - STANLEY RENDALL
JOSEPH CALICOT - HUNTLEY WRIGHT
MADELEINE (Comtesse D'Estrades) - MAISIE BELL
MARIETTE (Maid to Madame Pompadour) - ELSIE RANDOLPH.

MADAME POMPADOUR - EVELYN LAYE

Scenes and Settings

ACT I - The Tavern of "The Nine Muses"
ACT II - The Pompadour's Apartments at Versailles
ACT III - King Louis XV's Apartments at Versailles

Musical Numbers

ACT I.

INTRODUCTION & ENSEMBLE (Calicot and Chorus)
QUINTET - (René and Girls) - "Carnival Time" - (Laridi, laridon! At carnivals the world must have a gay time)
DUET - (Pompadour & Mariette) - "Love me Now" - (I feel so excited, I won't deny)
DUET - (Pompadour and René) - "By the Light of the Moon" - (Grant favour, In that arbour your heart will grow braver)
DUET - (Calicot and Mariette) - "If I were King" - (Though I'd feel a trifle strange)
FINALE ACT I

ACT II.

INTRODUCTION & ENSEMBLE
DUET- (Pompadour and René) - "Love's Sentry" - (Sentry 'shun, you're on parade now)
SEXTET - (Pompadour, Mariette, Madeleine & Three Maids) - "Tell me what your eyes were made for"
SERENADE - (René and Chorus of Soldiers) - "Madame Pompadour"
DUET - (Pompadour & Calicot) - "Joseph!" - (Mine's a mad infatuation)
11a. REMINISCENCE ... "Madame Pompadour"
FINALE ACT II

ACT III.

INTRODUCTION
DUET - (Calicot & Mariette) - "Two Little Birds" - (Though you're a girl I've gone simply mad about)
FINALE ACT III.