Patience

• Original London Production (1881)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1881)
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• New York Production (1881)
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• Broadway Production (1881)
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• New York Revival (1882)
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• New York Revival (1882)
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• Broadway Revival (1882)
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• Broadway Revival (1883)
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• Unknown (1883) *
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• Unknown (1884) *
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• Unknown (1885) *
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• Unknown (1890) *
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• Unknown (1892) *
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• Unknown (1896) *
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• Unknown (1898) *
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• Unknown (1900) *
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• Broadway Revival (1912) *
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• Broadway Revival (1918) *
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• Off-Broadway Revival (1924) *
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• Broadway Revival (1927) *
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• Unknown (1928) *
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• Unknown (1931) *
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• Unknown (1933) *
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• Broadway Revival (1934) *
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• Unknown (1936) *
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• Unknown (1939) *
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• Unknown (1944) *
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• Unknown (1948) *
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• Unknown (1964) *
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• Unknown (1965) *
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• New York Revival (1966)
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• Unknown (1968) *
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• Unknown (1968) *
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• LOOM Revival (1986)
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• New York City Opera Revival (2005)
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Original score

• Twenty love-sick maidens we
• Still brooding on their mad infatuation
• I cannot tell what this love may be
• Soldiers of our Queen, The
• If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
• In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
• When I first put this uniform on
• Am I alone and unobserved?
• If you're anxious for to shine
• Long years ago--fourteen, maybe
• Prithee, pretty maiden--prithee
• Though to marry you
• Let the merry cymbals sound
• Now tell us, we pray you
• Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
• Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
• Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel
• Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
• We've been thrown over, we're aware
• And are you going a ticket to buy?
• Hold! Stay your hand!
• True love must single-hearted be
• I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
• But who is this, whose god-like grace
• List Reginald, whilst I confess a love
• On such eyes as maidens cherish
• Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year
• Silvered is the raven hair
• Turn, oh turn in this direction
• Magnet hung in a hardware shop, A
• Love is a plaintive song
• So go to him and say to him
• It's clear that the mediaeval art
• If Saphir I choose to marry
• When I go out of door
• I'm a Waterloo House young man
• After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

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 (1961)
  

  • Donald Adams
  • John Cartier
  • Philip Potter
  • John Reed
  • Kenneth Sandford

All the well-born young ladies in the village, rapturously caught up in aestheticism, are in love with two contrasting aesthetic poets?a "fleshy" poet and an "idyllic" poet. But the poets are both in love with Patience, the simple village milkmaid, who cares nothing for poetry. Patience learns that true love must be completely unselfish?it must wither and sting and burn! The girls' military suitors don't see the point to aesthetics, but they decide to give it a try to win the women's hearts.

• Patience, or, Bunthorne's Bride (full title)