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The New Aladdin is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner

James T. Tanner

James Tolman Tanner was an English stage director and dramatist who wrote many of the successful musicals produced by George Edwardes.-Life and career:...

and W. H. Risque, with music by Ivan Caryll

Ivan Caryll

Félix Marie Henri Tilkin , better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language...

, Lionel Monckton

Lionel Monckton

Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...

, and additional numbers by Frank E. Tours, and lyrics by Adrian Ross

Adrian Ross

For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

, Percy Greenbank

Percy Greenbank

Percy Greenbank was an English lyricist, best known for his contribution of lyrics to a number of successful Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century. His older brother, lyricist Harry Greenbank, had a brilliant career in the 1890s that was cut short by his death at the...

, W. H. Risque, and George Grossmith, Jr.

George Grossmith, Jr.

George Grossmith, Jr. was a British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies...

It was produced by George Edwardes

George Edwardes

George Joseph Edwardes was an English theatre manager of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond....

at the Gaiety Theatre

Gaiety Theatre, London

The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...

, opening on 29 September 1906 and running for 203 performances.

The London production starred Grossmith, Harry Grattan

Harry Grattan

Harry Grattan was a British stage actor, singer, dancer and writer best known for his performances in musical comedies around 1900.- Life and career :...

(who also choreographed), Lily Elsie

Lily Elsie

Lily Elsie was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow....

, Edmund Payne

Edmund Payne

Edmund Payne , was an actor, comedian, singer and dramatist best known for his comic appearances in Edwardian Musical Comedy. His father was Edmund Payne, a master cabinet builder and his mother was Eliza Payne née Ince....

and Gaby Deslys

Gaby Deslys

Gaby Deslys was a dancer, singer, and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of Gabrielle of the Lillies. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone...

(making her London debut). Gertie Millar

Gertie Millar

Gertrude "Gertie" Millar was one of the most famous English singer-actresses of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies....

, the established star of the Gaiety soon became available and replaced Elsie in the leading role, but shortly thereafter The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play,...

made Elsie a big star.

The Aladdin

Aladdin

Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....

story had been dramatised extensively in England before and was very popular in pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...

versions, but this was the first book musical on the subject.

P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

wrote a comic dramatisation of the creation of The New Aladdin called "The Cooks and the Gaiety Broth" as part of Plum Punch: The Life of Writers.

Roles

Genie of The Lamp - George Grossmith, Jr.
George Grossmith, Jr.
George Grossmith, Jr. was a British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies...
Cadi (A Disgraced Ambassador) - Arthur Hatherton
Ebenezer (Lally's Uncle) - Harry Grattan
Harry Grattan
Harry Grattan was a British stage actor, singer, dancer and writer best known for his performances in musical comedies around 1900.- Life and career :...
General Ratz (Imperial Aide-de-Camp) - Robert Nainby
The Lost Constable - Alfred Lester
The Ideal Man - Charles Brown
Billy Pauncefort, Reggie Tighe, Tony Cavendish (The Romano Party) - Eustace Burnaby, J. R. Sinclair, S. Hansworth
A Tax Collector - J. W. Birtley
Tippin (Ebenezer's Page) - Edmund Payne
Edmund Payne
Edmund Payne , was an actor, comedian, singer and dramatist best known for his comic appearances in Edwardian Musical Comedy. His father was Edmund Payne, a master cabinet builder and his mother was Eliza Payne née Ince....
The Princess - Adrienne Augarde
Laolah (The Cadi's Daughter) - Olive May
Jennie (Maid to the Princess) - Jean Aylwin
Mrs. Tippin - Winifred Dennis
Winnie Fairfax - Kitty Mason
Flo Cartaret - Doris Beresford
Di Tollemache - Enid Leonhardt
Kit Lomax - Tessie Hackney
Vi Cortelyon - Gladys Desmond
May Warrener - Florence Lindley
Nan Jocelyn - Violet Walker
Madge Oliphant - Edna Loftus
Millie Farquhar - Minnie Baker
The Charm Of Paris - Gaby Deslys
Gaby Deslys
Gaby Deslys was a dancer, singer, and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of Gabrielle of the Lillies. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone...
Spirit Of The Ring - Connie Ediss
Lally (Ebenezer's Nephew) - Lily Elsie
Lily Elsie
Lily Elsie was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow....

(replaced by Gertie Millar
Gertie Millar
Gertrude "Gertie" Millar was one of the most famous English singer-actresses of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies....

)

Musical numbers

Act I - Scene 1 - The Interior of Ebenezer's Antique Shop in Bond Street

No. 1 - Song - Lally and Chorus of Girls - "Dear little lady whose portrait I see..."
No. 2 - Song - Tippin and Chorus - "Who would be a "Boy," nothing to enjoy..."
No. 3 - Quartet - Lally, Spirit, Tippin and Ebenezer - "Let us fly upon the wing of the Spirit of the Ring..."

Act I - Scene 2 - A Palace in Far Cathay

No. 4 - Introduction and Opening Chorus - "Oriental belles languidly reposing..."
No. 4a - Song - Cadi and Chorus - "I am the Cadi, calm and cool and seldom in a fury O..."
No. 5 - Duet - Lally and Princess - "When first I looked at your face, Princess, in a gold and miniature case..."
No. 6 - Duet - Spirit and Tippin - "Out of the boundless blue..."
No. 7 - Concerted Number - Princess, Ebenezer, Cadi, Tippin, Maid, Ratz, Spirit & Lally - "How rashly you behave..."
No. 8 - Song - Genie and Chorus - "Oh, the lamp which used to gladd'n once the heart of young Aladd'n..."
No. 9 - Sextet - Genie and others - "We're taking a trip in a hop or a skip..."
No. 10 - Song - Princess - "I'm a maiden who is rather modest..."
No. 11 - Trio - Ebenezer, Cadi and Ratz - "Oh, I have a great big head..."
No. 12 - Finale - Act I - "We have had a most exciting day..."

Act II - The Ideal London

No. 13 - Act II Opening Chorus - "Rubbing our eyes in surprise..."
No. 14 - Concerted Number - "I've brought you over and set you down in the last edition of London Town..."
No. 15 - Concerted Number - "Je suis Le Charme de Paris! In English that will be personified Paree!"
No. 16 - Chorus - "At the close of night when the sun shone bright, then we ceased to be hilarious..."
No. 17 - Song - Lally - "If you would like to lead the fashion of quite the swellest set..."
No. 18 - Song - Genie and Chorus - "If you ever go down to a popular town on the coast when the summer is hot..."
No. 19 - Duet - Princess and Genie - "I want to tell something to someone, and there's no one about that I know..."
No. 20 - Song - Charm of Paris - "When in summertime I go to some place mondaine..."
No. 21 - Duet - Tippin and Genie - "There's a set that you've lately been told to avoid..."
No. 22 - Trio - Ebenezer, Cadi and Ratz - "An Englishman, a German!"
No. 23 - Finale - Act II - "London, here in London the ideal will not all be undone..."

Addenda

No. 24 - Song - Lally and Chorus - "When Grandmamma was young, such modesty possessed her..."
No. 25 - Song - Lally - "When the shades of night are softly creepin' up across the gardens at the Zoo..."
No. 26 - Song - Lally - "There's a little question people ask you now and then..."
No. 27 - Duet - Lally and Tippin - "We are only 'umble costers and uneducated chaps..."
No. 28 - Dance
No. 29 - Song - Spirit and Chorus - "Some people may talk of taking a walk..."

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