The French Maid

• Original London Production (1897)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1897)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Return Engagement (1898)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• The Admiral
• Chambermaids
• Charity's Useful Disguise
• Do Not Jump at Your Conclusions
• The Gay Gendarme
• I'll Read You Such a Dance
• It Is Their Nature To
• It's Even My Endeavor
• I've Her Portrait Nex' My Heart
• Je ne le Comprends Pas
• Jolly British Tar
• La Femme de Chambre
• Love That Is True
• The Maharajah
• Pretty Suzette
• Rhapsodie Table d'Hote
• Twas Twenty-Seven Bells by the Waterbury Watch
• You Can Read It in My Eyes

Added after London opening

• A Bit Too Far
• Brave Gendarmes
• Britannia's Song
• Castles in the Air
• It's Gone Eight Bells

Suzette has many admirers, including a jealous gendarme, Paul Lecuire and Charles Brown, a waiter at the hotel where4 she works. They are concerned by her impending choicd of escorts to the forthcoming bal-masqué. But things are further complicated by various visitors to the hotel who also call for the pretty maid's charms - an Indian Princd, his attaché and Jack Brown, and English soldier and twin brother to the waiter. In traditional French style Suzette strings them all along, causing havoc in the lives of all concerned, including the aristocratic Admiral and Lady Hawser, their niece Dorothy and her lover, Harry, who gets involved in a second act full of jealousy, disguises and misunderstandings until all is disentangled and a chastened Suzette goes back to her faithful gendarme.

There may have been a return engagement. An opening date of 10/9/1897 has been traced but it's not clear what the date means.

Songs that were traced as being in an October 1897 London production are listed in the songs section as "Added after London opening".