La Belle Paree

• Original Broadway Production (1911)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Opening Chorus
• Susan Brown from a Country Town
• Human Brush, The
  • aka I'm the Human Brush (That Paints the Crimson on Paree) [no note]
• Widows
• Paris Is a Paradise for Coons
• Pretty Milliners, The
• Monte Carlo Moon
• That Deviling Tune
• Teasing
• Bosphorus
• Edinburgh Wriggle, The
  • aka The Edinboro Wriggle [no note]
• Russian Dance
• Song and March
• Violin Specialty
• Dance
• Trovatore
  • aka Sing Trovatore [no note]
• Specialty
• Goblins
  • aka De Goblin's Glide [no note]
• What Kind of a Place Is This?
• Duel, The
• Ballet of Pierrots and Harlequins, The

Added after opening

• That's All Right for McGilligan
• Look Me Over Dearie
• That Lovin' Traumerei

The first act of this production consisted of a Spanish ballet by Tortajada followed by Manuel Klein's 'Chinese' opera, BOW SING. LA BELLE PAREE was the second act of this billing and was little more than a glorified vaudeville.

LA BELLE PAREE is notable, however, in that it was the premi?re production in the Winter Garden Theatre in the area that was to become known as Broadway. More significantly, perhaps, it marked the Broadway debut of Al Jolson.

This was the final attraction of the bill and the program was revised weekly. On opening night the program read: