Duet - (Susan and Gigg) - The Toreador - 1901

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 16 Oct 2001

[Susan] If ever I marry,
my husband must be in some occupation
attractive to me;
I'm sure I should dote
on an artist of note,
with wonderful ties and a velveteen coat!

[Gigg] Oh, that sort of man
wouldn't suit you a bit,
he'd always be trying
to get you to sit,
and painting away for sendingin day;
you know the Academy opens in May!

[Dialogue and Business]
[Dialogue and Business]

[Both] I think I see
that I should be unhappy
with such a celebritee,
his language artistic,
would fall rather flat!
I shouldn't get on
with a man like that!

[Susan] Now sometimes I think
I would marry for choice
an opera singer,
with beautiful voice,
who'd work with the whole of his heart
and his soul in rendering, say,
a Wagnerian rôle.

[Gigg] For choosing a singer
your 'motif' is 'leit'
remember that he would be
out ev'ry night;
The daytime, alas!
I fear he would pass
rehearsing expression in front of a glass.

[Dialogue and Business]
[Dialogue and Business]

[Both] I think I see that
I should be unhappy
with such a celebritee,
although he would probably never sing flat,
I shouldn't get on
with a man like that!

[Gigg] I'm sure you'd find
no one more suitable than
a highly respectable medical man,
whose praise would be sung
by the old and the young;
your pulse he would feel
and examine your tongue.

[Susan] Well, I should get
dreadfully jealous, you know,
for popular doctors are flirted with so;
some ladies, you see,
will ask them to tea,
and fully describe
what their symptoms may be.

[Dialogue and Business]
[Dialogue and Business]

[Both] Now don't you see that
you would be unhappy
with such a celebritee!
With patients he'd always
be having a chat,
You wouldn't get on
with a man like that!

[Gigg] Why not try a judge
very learnèd and bland.
The Law Courts, you know
are not far down The Strand,
and there he'd preside,
looking most dignified,
and listen while different
cases were tried.

[Susan] Yes, judges are
wonderful persons, no doubt,
but they've got a habit
of finding things out;
and I should object
to have him suspect,
supposing my conduct
was not quite correct.

[Dialogue and Business]
[Dialogue and Business]

[Both] Now don't you see that
you would be unhappy
with such a celebritee!
He'd always be finding out
what I was at,
I shouldn't get on
with a man like that!

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Duet 08 The Toreador 1901

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Duet 08 The Toreador 1901
Duet:- (Susan and Gigg)
Music by Lionel Monckton
Words by Percy Greenbank
Sequenced for 'The Gaiety'
Editor - Roderick Murray
by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - assoc. Doug Grierson
on Tuesday 16 Oct 2001 at 08.53
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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