SAN TOY or The Emperor's Own

Book by Edward Morton, Lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross, Music by Sidney Jones; Additional music by Lionel Monckton

Daly's Theatre, London - 21 October, 1899
Daly's Theatre, Broadway - 1 October, 1900 (65 perfs)

Musical Numbers:

  1. We'll Keep the Feast in Pynka Pong - Opening Chorus
  2. The Mandarin - Quintette (Li, Wai Ho, Ah Wen, Yu Sam & Me Koui) & Chorus
  3. The Lady's Maid - Dudley
  4. A Posy From Over the Sea - Poppy
  5. Six Little Wives - Yen How & Wives
  6. The Petals of the Plum Tree - San Toy
  7. A.B.C. - San Toy & Bobby
  8. The Moon - Concerted Number
  9. Pynka Pong - Poppy, Dudley, Tucker and Li
  10. Love Has Come From Lotus Land - Bobby
  11. When You Are Wed To Me - San Toy and Fo Hop
  12. Samee Gamee - Dudley and Li
  13. We Have Come Here Now - Finale Act I
  14. We're the Cream Of Courtly Creatures - Chorus of Mandarins
  15. Rhoda and her Pagoda - Dudley
  16. The Emperor's Own - Chorus & Entrance of Bodyguards
  17. By Our Majestic Monarch's Command - Sing Hi, Bobbie, Sir Bingo & Chorus
  18. The Whole Story - Poppy
  19. The Little China Maid - San Toy & Bobby
  20. We Have Come To See - Wives
  21. Pletty Little Chinee - Dudley & Li
  22. Back To London - Poppy, Dudley, Tucker, Li, Preston & English Ladies
  23. I Mean To Introduce It Into China - Yen How
  24. The One In The World - San Toy
  25. The Butterfly - Bobbie
  26. Chinee Soge-Man - Li

Supplementary Numbers:

  1. It's Nice To Be A Boy Sometimes - San Toy
  2. Me Gettee Out Very Quick - Li
  3. A Little Bit Of Fun - San Toy
  4. Somebody - San Toy

Scenes:

Act 1 - A Street in Pynka Pong
Act 2 - A Hall In the Emperor's Palace, Peking.

Characters

  • San Toy - Daughter of Yen How
  • Captain Bobbie Preston - Son of Sir George Bingo Preston
  • Yen How - A Mandarin
  • Sir Bingo Preston - British Consul at Pynka Pong
  • Sing Hi - President of the Board of Ceremonies
  • Lieut. Harvey Tucker
  • Fo Hop - A Chinese Student
  • Fang - A Boatman
  • Hu Pi & Wai Ho - Jewellers of Pynka
  • Li Hi & Li Lo - Tartar Guards
  • Old Mandarin - At Court of Peking
  • Li
  • Poppy - Daughter of Sir Bingo
  • Dudley - Her Maid
  • Chu - A Widow
  • Wun Lung - Perpetual Corporal of the Emperor's Own
  • Ko Fan - Of the Emperor's Own
  • Yeng Shi, Me Koui, Siou, Shuey Pin Sing, Li Kiang & Hu Yu - Wives of Yen How
  • Mrs Hartley Streeter
  • Hon Mrs Hay Stackporle
  • Miss Mary Lambkin
  • Lady Pickleton