The Quaker Girl

composer

Lionel Monckton (1861-1924)

first performed on 5 November 1910 at the Adelphi Theatre

Recordings

Monckton: Songs from the shows
New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

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No 06: A bad boy and a good girl When a bad, bad boy like me

author of text
Percy Greenbank (1878-1968)

Catherine Bott (soprano), Richard Suart (baritone), New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

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No 22: Tony, from America All along the garden where the moonbeams glance

author of text
Lionel Monckton (1861-1924)

Catherine Bott (soprano), New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

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No 27: The little grey bonnet Life is a milliner's show

author of text
Lionel Monckton (1861-1924)

Catherine Bott (soprano), New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

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The Quaker Girl

For The Quaker Girl (Adelphi, 5 November 1910) Monckton composed the entire score as a vehicle for his wife Gertie Millar. She played an innocent Quaker girl, Prudence Pym, who is expelled from the brotherhood for sipping champagne. In A bad boy and a good girl in Act 1 she and American admirer Tony Chute (played by Joseph Coyne, London’s first Danilo in The Merry Widow) reflect on their contrasted backgrounds. In Act 2 she finds herself in Paris, where in The little grey bonnet she describes the Parisian excitement at her dress. Then, in Tony, from America, she acknowledges her commitment to her American suitor. The appeal of the Quaker dress in Paris was real, and the show achieved production and publication there as La petite quaker in 1912, as well as Spanish production as Los quakeros in 1913.

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