A LONELY ROMEO
Composer: Malvin F.
Franklin
Lyricist: Robert B. Smith
Opened: June 10, 1919, Shubert Theatre, N.Y.C.;
transferred on July 28, 1919 to the Casino Theatre
Performances: 128
Any Old Place With You (aka “The Geography Song”) (M: Richard Rodgers; L: Lorenz Hart) (added after opening):
1. Songs By Rodgers &
Hart, Walden 304 (Bob Shaver with the John Morris Trio)
[reissued on Songs By Cole Porter And Rodgers & Hart,
CD/Harbinger HCD 1703]
2. Rodgers And Hart Revisited Volume II, Crewe CR 1343 (Blossom
Dearie, Bobby Short, Charles Rydell, Bibi Osterwald, and
Ensemble with musical direction by Norman Paris) [reissued as
CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-139]
3. Taking It To Hart, CD/Ronnie Scott’s Jazz House 40 (Ian Shaw)
4. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway
Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick
Johnson, pianos)
5. Live!, CD/Original Cast 5391 (Barry Lloyd)
The Candy Jag:
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Don’t Do Anything Till You Hear From Me:
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early
Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto
and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Influenza Blues:
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Jolly Me (M: Robert Hood Bowers):
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra conducted by Adam Aceto)
(I Want A) Lonely Romeo:
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra conducted by Adam Aceto)
One I Love, Two I Love (M: Robert Hood Bowers):
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Save A Little Daylight For Me (M: Robert Hood Bowers):
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Broadway Tuned
Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034 (orchestra conducted
by Adam Aceto)
Storm (M: Robert Hood Bowers):
1. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra conducted by Adam Aceto)
Sweets To The Sweet:
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Underneath A Big Umbrella:
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early
Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto
and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra conducted by Adam Aceto)
Wait For Me (M: Robert Hood Bowers):
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra conducted by Adam Aceto)
Will O’ The Wisp (M: Malvin M. Franklin; Otis Spencer):
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra conducted by Adam Aceto) (two renditions)
You Never Can Tell (M: Robert Hood Bowers) (cut after
opening) :
1. Back In The Limelight: Piano
Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Unrecorded Material:
Candy Eating Scene
Cute An Cunnin’ (inst.) (L: Robert Hood Bowers)
Flirtation Fantasies (Flirtation Fantasy)
I Guess I’m More Like Mother Than Like Father (M: Richard A.
Whiting; L: Raymond B. Egan) (added after opening)
Jazz Dance (cut after opening)
Leave It To Your Milliner (M: Robert Hood Bowers) (cut after
opening)
Let’s Go! (Finale) (M: Robert Hood Bowers)
pening Act II
Opening Act II (Singing And Dance School) (inst.)
Opening Of Hat Shop (M: Robert Hood Bowers)
Slumber Music (cut after opening)