A Gaiety Girl

• Original London Production (1893)
  London, England
• West End Return Engagement (1893)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1894)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Return Engagement (1895)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• When a masculine stranger goes by, array'd in a uniform smart
• O sing a welcome fair to Mr. Justice Grey
• I'm a judge
• Beneath the skies of summer sweet I linger where two pathways meet
• Here come the ladies who dazzle Society
• I am favourably known as a high-class chaperone
• To the barracks we have come
• Oh, my daughter, there's a creature known as man
• When once I get hold of a good-looking He
• Little Jimmy was a scholar and his aptitude was such
• Waltz
• Oh, we take him from the city or the plough
• To my judicial mind there's not a doubt
• Here on sunlit sands daintily we figure
• That ladies cannot bathe, if so they please, without encount'ring creatures such as these
• Buck up, buck up, old chappie!
• When your pride has had a tumble, and you've set your cap too high
• When in town you're safely landed, and the doctor far away
• Unlucky the morn on which I was born the youngest of several brothers
• We're awfully anxious to join in the fun
• Let folly reign supreme today, for carnival is holding sway
• Mesdames, messieurs, je suis Pierrot
• Sunshine above, and sunshine in my heart! Laughter and love hold carnival today
• I find it's really better far to keep my pranks for Bench and Bar

Based on an outline by James T. Tanner

A party of Gaiety girls and young society ladies are invited to a garden party given by the officers of the Life Guards at Windsor, as are a judge of the divorce court, Sir Lewis Gray, and a chaplain, Dr. Montague Brierly. The officers neglect the society girls and focus on the Gaiety girls, while the judge, who married his housemaid, and the chaplain both amuse themselves at the party in a most unprofessional manner, the judge telling stories of ladies who have appeared before him in court, and the clergyman dancing in an inappropriate manner. The society ladies are chaperoned by a Lady Virginia Forest, who is worried that the judge will not remember her case. One of the Gaiety girls, Alma Somerset, is falsely accused of theft.