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''The School Girl'' is an Edwardian musical comedy, in two acts, composed by Leslie Stuart (with additional songs by Paul Rubens) with a book by Henry Hamilton and Paul M. Potter, and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor and others. It concerns a French school girl from a convent, who goes to Paris to help her lovesick friend. Through mistaken identity, she learns secrets that help her at the Paris stock exchange and ends up at a students' ball in the Latin Quarter. All ends happily. The musical was first produced in 1903 by George Edwardes and Charles Frohman at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London and ran for 333 performances there. It starred Edna May, Marie Studholme and Billie Burke.〔("''The School Girl'' a Hit" ). ''The New York Times'', 10 May 1903, accessed 20 February 2011〕 George Grossmith, Jr. succeeded G P Huntley as Ormsby St. Ledger.〔(Biography of Grossmith ) at the British Musical Theatre website, 29 August 2004, accessed 20 February 2011〕 The show also played successfully on Broadway in 1904, with May and Grossmith,〔("The Week in Theatres; The 'School Girl' at Daly's" (preview) ), ''The New York Times'', 28 August 1904, accessed 11 February 2012〕〔("Edna May Here in ''The School Girl''" ), ''The New York Times'', 2 September 1904, accessed 11 February 1012〕 and on the national and international touring circuits. The most famous song from this show was "My Little Canoe." ==Roles and original cast== * Lillian Leigh – Edna May * Mother Superior – Violet Cameron * Marianne (a French Bonne) – Marianne Caldwell * Norma Rochester, Mamie Reckfeller, Yolande, Violette, Mimi, Fifine (American Girls) – Norma Whalley, Billie Burke, Pauline Chase, Maude Percival, Ethel Negretti, Mamie Stuart * Saaefrada (a Model) – Clarita Vidal * Kate Medhurst – Mildred Baker * Jessie Campbell, Evelyn Somers, Mabel Kingston (School Girls) – Mary Fraser, Evelyn Bond, Alice Coleman * Miss Yost (the Typewriter) – Lulu Valli * Mrs. Marchmont – Barbara Huntley * Cicely Marchmont (her Daughter) – Marie Studholme * Sir Ormesby St. Leger – G P Huntley (replaced by George Grossmith, Jr.) * General Marchmont – George Graves * Peter Overend (of the Open Stock Exchange) – J. A. Warden * Corner (his Clerk) – Gilbert Porteus * Jacques De Crevert (Clerk) – Frank Walsh * Tubby Bedford – James Blakeley * George Sylvester, Adolphe Delapois, Jack Merrion, Edgar Verney (Artists) – Charles Hampden, Murri Moncrieff, Talleur Andrews, J. Edward Fraser 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The School Girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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