MARY

MARY

Composer: Louis Hirsch
Lyricists: Otto Harbach; Frank Mandel

Opened: October 18, 1920, Knickerbocker Theatre, N.Y.C. April 27, 1921, Queen’s Theatre, London
Performances: 220 (N.Y.C.); ? (London)

Note: A complete song list is not available at this time. This show was called THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT out of town. An unidentified medley appears on 78/Vocalion 36210 (Aeolian Light Opera Company).

Anything You Want To Do, Dear:

1. 78/Columbia 862 (Herman Finck and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Volume IV: 1920-1929, CD/Pearl GEMS 0085]
3. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)

Down On The Old Kansas Farm (That Farm Out In Kansas):

1. 78/Columbia 862 (Herman Finck and His Orchestra)
2. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)

The Love Nest:

I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this standard.

Mary:

1. 78/Columbia 862 (Herman Finck and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Volume IV: 1920-1929, CD/Pearl GEMS 0085]
3. 78/Lyric 4220 (Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra)
4. 78/Columbia A 2955 (Art Hickman’s Orchestra) [reissued on The Phonographic Yearbook: 1920 - Even Water’s Getting Weaker, CD/Archeophone ARCH 9001A]
5. 78/Edison 50702 (Imperial Marimba Band)
6. 78/Victor 18678 (Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra)
7. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Bernadette Boerekel and Colte Julian with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
8. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)

That May Have Satisfy Grandma (That Might Satisfy Grandma):

1. 78/Columbia 862 (Herman Finck and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Path 40208 (Nicholas Orlando’s Orchestra)
3 . Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)

Waiting:

1. 78/Columbia 862 (Herman Finck and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Volume IV: 1920-1929, CD/Pearl GEMS 0085]
3. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)

We’ll Give A Wonderful Party (We’ll Have A Wonderful Party):

1. 78/Columbia 862 (Herman Finck and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Volume IV: 1920-1929, CD/Pearl GEMS 0085]
3. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theatre Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)

Unrecorded Material:

Deeper (added after opening but dropped for the subsequent tour)
Don’t Fall Until You’ve Seen Them All
Every Time I Meet A Lady
Finale (Act 1)
Finale (Act 2)
Flirtation Dance (dropped for the subsequent tour)
Golf Dance (added for the subsequent tour)
It’s A Widow For Mine (cut)
Money, Money, Money
Opening Chorus (Act 2)
When A Woman Exits Laughing