THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER
Composer: Victor
Herbert
Lyricist: James O’Dea
Opened: October 28, 1912, Globe Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 232
Note: An
unreleased studio cast album with John McGlinn conducting the
London Sinfonietta is also known to exist. An unidentified
selection also appeard on 78/Victor 55039 (orchestra conducted
by Victor Herbert).
All Hallowe’en (Games Of Hallowe’en) (dropped during the subsequent tour):
1. 78/Victor 31877 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [also 78/Victor 35444; reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS
0083]
At The Bal Masque (Opening Chorus Act
2):
1. 78/Victor 31877 (Victor
Light Opera Company) (as “Beautiful Bal Masque”) [also
78/Victor 35444; reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone –
Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
Bagdad (L: Anne Caldwell):
1. 78/Victor 31877 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [also 78/Victor 35444; reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS
0083]
2. 78/Victor 17220 (Billy Murray with orchestra) [reissued on
The Phonographic Record 1913: Come And See The Big Parade,
CD/Archeophone ARCH 9005]
(A) Little Girl At Home (L:
Anne Caldwell) (final version):
1. CYL/Edison
Blue Amberol 1530 (Elizabeth Spencer and Harvey [Hindermyer])
2. 78/Victor 31877 (Victor Light Opera Company)
[also 78/Victor 35444; reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
3. 78/Victor 17220 (Marguerite Dunlap and Harry MacDonough with
orchestra)
4. 78/Columbia A 1268 (Clara Moister and Henry Burr with
orchestral accompaniment)
Love Me Like A Real, Real Man:
1. 78/Victor 31877 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [also 78/Victor 35444; reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS
0083
Princess Of Far Away:
1. 78/Victor 31877
(Victor Light Opera Company) [also 78/Victor 35444;
reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II,
CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
2. 78/Columbia A 1268 (Clara Moister with orchestral
accompaniment)
Unrecorded Material:
The Ballet Suite
(Introduction; Polka; Valse Lente; Finale) (inst.) (not in
programs)
Boxing Music (Boxing Pantomime) (not in programs)
(Opening) Chorus (Act 1)
Cinderella’s Dream
Dance Medley (Act 2) (not in programs)
The Drums Of All Nations (Finale, Act 2)
Encore To Stop Dance (not in programs)
Entr’acte (Act 3)
Entrance Of Cinderella (not in programs)
Fairy Music (Library of Congress/ASCAP only)
Fairy Tales (not in programs)
Finale, Act 3 (And They Lived Happily Ever Afterwards)
Finale, Act 3 (alternate version)
Flutter, Flutter, Little Butterfly (inst.) (not in programs)
Fond Of The Ladies
The Garden Party (not in programs)
Harlequinade (inst.)
Introducing The Lady Of The Slipper (not in programs)
Jack O’Lantern Love (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Just Love Me All The Time (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Just You And I In Dreamland (Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland)
(ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
The Lady Of The Slipper (March)
The Little Girl At Home (L: Anne Caldwell) (original unused
version)
Meow! Meow! Meow!
My Russian Girlski (not in programs)
Overture
Punch Bowl Glide (inst.)
Put Your Best Foot Forward, Little Girl
(French) Quadrille (not in programs)
The Ride To The Castle (inst.) (not in programs)
Romneya Music (inst.) (not in programs)
Schottische & Essence (not in programs)
Souvenir Program Poem (text)
Them Was Our Childhood Days
Transformation Scene (not in programs)
The Voice Of The Waltz (not in programs)
The Way To Sing A Ragtime Song (not in programs)
Witch(es) Ballet (inst.)
Youth (Ballet) (titled “Sweet Sixteen” for the subsequent tour)