Naughty Marietta

• Original Broadway Production (1910)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1929)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1931)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Return Engagement (1931)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1935)
• New York City Opera Production (1978)
  New York, NY
• New York City Opera Revival (1979)
  New York, NY
• Light Opera of Manhattan Revival (1980)
  New York, NY
• Smithsonian Concert Production (1980)
  Washington, D.C.
• LOOM Revival (1985)
  New York, NY
• New York City Opera Revival (1988)
  New York, NY
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2007)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Opening Chorus: Come, Come, Come
  • aka Five O'Clock and a Fine Clear Morning [no note]
• Convent Maids
  • aka Here They Come, the Convent Maids [no note]
• Mysterious Melody
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
• Taisez-Vous
• Song from the Fountain
• Naughty Marietta
• It Never, Never Can Be Love
• If I Were Anybody Else But Me
• 'Neath the Southern Moon
• Italian Street Song
• Finale Act I
  • aka Tis She! The Casket Girl! [no note]
• Dance of the Marionettes
• You Marry a Marionette
• The Dream Melody
  • aka Intermezzo [no note]
• New Orleans Jeunesse Doree
• Loves of New Orleans
• The Sweet By and By
• Prelude to 'Live for Today'
• Live for Today
  • aka Oh, Life Is Sweet [no note]
• I'm Falling in Love with Someone
• It's Pretty Soft for Simon
• Finale Ultimo
  • aka Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life [no note]

Cut prior to opening

• Mr. Voodoo
• Governor's Entrance
• All I Crave Is More of Life

Rewritten for the 1935 film version

• Chansonette
• Student's Song
• Antoinette and Anatole
• Song of Goodbye
  • aka Prayer [no note]
• Owl and the Bob-Cat, The
• Ship Ahoy

Written for 1960 MusiCarnival Production

• I Go With the Wind
• Let's Be Friends
• Indian Needs a Woman

Added to 1987 Paper Mill Playhouse Production

• To the Land of My Own Romance
• Toyland
• Art is Calling Me
• Kiss Me, Kiss Me Again

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1949)
  

  • Nelson Eddy
  • Nadine Conner
• Studio Cast (not listed yet)
  

  • Peter Regan (i)
  • Stephanie Voss
  • Peter Knight Singers

The setting: Eighteenth-century New Orleans. Marietta D'Altena is visting the city to esacpe an arranged marriage. There she meets Captain Dick Warrington, who is preparing to lead his men in an attempt to bring down a pirate band. She initially has her eyes set on another gentleman, Etienne Grandet (son of the lieutenant governor of New Orleans), but he turns out to be the leader of the pirates, and Marietta turns her affections toward the captain. She knows that he is the man for her because he can complete a song that she remembers from her childhood — "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life."

The instrumentals 'Mysterious Melody' and 'Intermezzo' and the vocals 'Song from the Fountain' and 'Finale Ultimo' all use the same melody.

Songs rewritten for the 1935 MGM film version, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, used Herbert's original music with new lyrics by Gus Kahn.