The Girl Who Came to Supper

• Original Broadway Production (1963)
  New York, NY
• BBC Radio Production (1979)
• Musicals in Mufti Production (1999)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Carpathian National Anthem: Yasni Kozkolai
  • aka Yasni Kozkolai [no note]
• My Family Tree
  • aka My (Shady) Family Tree [Title in The Complete Lyrics of Noël Coward]
• I've Been Invited to a Party
• When Foreign Princes Come to Visit Us
  • aka Footman's Sextet [no note]
• Sir or Ma'am
• Soliloquies
• Lonely
• London Is a Little Bit of Alright
  • aka London Is a Little Bit of All Right [no note]
• Waltz
• What Ho, Mrs. Brisket
  • aka What Ho! Mrs. Brisket! [no note]
• Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army
• Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown
• Here and Now
• Coronation Chorale
  • aka Westminster Abbey [no note]
• How Do You Do, Middle Age?
• The Stingaree
• Curt, Clear and Concise
• Tango
• Welcome to Pootzie Van Doyle
• The Coconut Girl
• Paddy MacNeil and His Automobile
• Swing Song
• Six Lillies of the Valley
• The Walla Walla Boola
• This Time It's True Love
  • aka Come Be My True Love [no note]
• I'll Remember Her

Cut prior to opening

• Time Will Tell
• Long Live the King
  • aka Long Live the King (If He Can) [Title in Noël Coward: The Complete Lyrics]
  • aka Long Live the King—If He Can [no note]
• If Only Mrs. Applejohn Were Here
• What's the Matter With a Nice Beef Stew?
• Just People
• This Is My True Love
• I'm a Lonely Man
• Put Not Your Trust in Princes
• Life Without Love

• Composer Demo (1963) [audio]

Based on the play The Sleeping Prince by Terence Rattigan

Set in London on the eve of King George V’s coronation in 1911, a chorus girl inadvertently attracts the attention of a visiting prince regent after a performance. Invited to dine with him, she navigates an evening filled with interruptions from royal family, political tensions, and cultural faux pas. Mistaken identities, musical numbers, and the collision of royalty with theatrical life create both comedic and heartfelt moments. As royal responsibilities and spontaneous attraction collide, the chorus girl unexpectedly becomes part of high society, her ordinary background contrasting with regal formality. Through missteps and well-timed humor, she finds herself embraced—however briefly—by a world she never imagined, encapsulating a fleeting night of enchantment in the spotlight of history.

• The Sleeping Prince (source material)