PRINCESS CAPRICE/LIEBER AUGUSTIN
Composer: Leo Fall
Lyricist: Edgar Smith
Opened: May 11, 1912, Shaftesbury Theatre, London;
September 3, 1913, Casino Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 267 (London); 37 (N.Y.C.)
Note: This show was called PRINCESS CAPRICE in LONDON,
LIEBER AUGUSTIN in New York City, and subsequently toured as
MISS CAPRICE. An unidentified medley appears on
78/HMV 04531/2 (Light Opera Company [Peter Dawson, Stewart
Gardner, Bertha Lewis, Ernest Pike, Carrie Tubb, and Harold
Wilde). A recording of the original German version can be
found on Der Liebe Augustin, CD/Membran 232994.
Be My Comrade True:
1. 78/HMV 03297 (Clara
Evelyn with orchestral accompaniment)
Do You Like (Love) Me Best?:
1. 78/Victor 35319 (Victor
Military Band)
If You Were Mine:
1. 78/Victor 35332 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone - Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
2. 78/Victor 35319 (Victor Military Band)
Lieber Augustin:
1. 78/Victor 35332 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone - Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
Look In Her Eyes (M: Jerome Kern;
L:M.E. Rourke) (also used
in THE MIDNIGHT GIRL and later used as
“Look In His Eyes” in HAVE A HEART):
1. 78/Victor 60120 (George
Mac Farlane with orchestra) (as "Look In Her Eyes") [reissued on
Music From The New York Stage Vol. 3: 1913-1917, CD/Pearl GEMM
CDS 9056-8]
2. 78/Victor 35332 (Victor Light Opera Company) (two renditions
of "Look In Her Eyes") [reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone - Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
3. 78/Edison 80147 (Vernon Archibald with orchestra) (as "Look
In Her Eyes Miss Caprice")
4. Have A Heart, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CHH04P-2C (Suzanne Galer
and Chorus with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos) (as
“Look In His Eyes”))
Take Your Time (L: Harry Beswick) :
1. 78/Victor 35332 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone - Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
The Wedding Bell:
1. 78/HMV (rej) (Cicely
Courtneidge with orchestral accompaniment)
2. 78/Victor 35332 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone - Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
Unrecorded Material: