FOLIES BERGERE COMPANY (1911)

Composer: Robert Hood Bowers
Lyricist: Harry B. Smith; Robert B. Smith

Opened: April 27, 1911, Teller’s Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 92

Note: This show contained three parts:  HELL, TEMPTATIONS (a ballet with music by Edmond Diet), and GABY.

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (M/L: Irving Berlin) (cut; originally used in HELL; also sued in FRIARS FROLIC OF 1911, THE MERRY WHIRL, VERA VIOLETTA, and HULLO, RAG-TIME!):

I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this Berlin standard beyond original cast member and composer performances.
1. The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume I, CD/Pearl GEM 0116 (Ethel Levey)
2. Irving Sings Berlin, CD/Koch 3-7510-2 HI (Irving Berlin)


(I) Beg Your Pardon, (Dear Old) Broadway (M/L: Irving Berlin) (part of GABY):

1. Chip Deffaa’s An Irving Berlin Travelogue, CD/Garrett Mountain CDP AD 0604 (Jackson Demott Hill and Alex Dreier with musical direction by Richard Danley)


Sarasa (Spanish Dance) (M/L: Unknown) (part of GABY):

1. 78/Victor 0476 (unknown orchestra) (unverified)
2. Love Trap, CD/Virgin VNDCD 154 (Susheela Raman) (unverified)


Spanish Love (M/L: Irving Berlin; Vincent Bryan; Ted Snyder) (part of GABY):

1. 78/Columbia 1031 (Andrea Sarto and Chorus)
2. Chip Deffaa’s An Irving Berlin Travelogue, CD/Garrett Mountain CDP AD 0604 (Keith Anderson with musical direction by Richard Danley)


Unrecorded Material:

Answer Me (M: Irving Berlin; L: Ted Snyder) (cut after opening)
Chic, Chic, Chic (part of GABY; not in programs)
Don’t Stop, Mr. Jenkinson (M/L: Unknown) (part of GABY)
(Let’s All Go) Down The Strand  (M/L: Bernard Rolt; E.G. McLellan) (part of GABY)
Down To The Folies Bergere (M/L: Irving Berlin; Vincent Bryan; Ted Snyder)
Ensenanza (part of GABY; not in programs)
Finale (part of GABY)
He Reminds Me Of Someone I Want To Forget (M/L: Unknown) (part of HELL; not in programs)
How Do You Do? (M: Melville Gideon; L: Harold Atteridge) (part of GABY; not in programs)
How’d You Like To Be The Shoe Store Man? (M: Maurice Levi) (part of HELL)
I’ll Be A Sister To You (part of GABY; not in programs)
Keep A Taxi Waiting, Dear (M/L: Irving Berlin; Vincent Bryan; Ted Snyder) (part of HELL; added after opening)
March Of The Beauties Of The Nation (inst.) (part of GABY)
March Of The Delegations From All Parts Of The World (inst.) (part of HELL)
March Of The Infernal Guards (part of HELL)
March Of The New York Clubs (M: Maurice Levi) (part of HELL)
March Of The Toreadors (inst.) (part of GABY)
Opening Chorus (part of GABY; possibly the same as “Down To The Folies Bergere”)
Opening Chorus (part of HELL)
The Piccadilly Band (M: Melville Gideon; L: Harold Atteridge) (part of GABY; not in programs)
Valse D’Amour