MARIGOLD
A musical romance in 2 acts by Alan Melville; music by Charles Zwar. Based on the play by F.R. Pryor and L. Allen Harker.
Savoy Theatre, London - 27 May, 1959. Transferred to the Saville Theatre 13th July, 1959. Closed 1st August 1959 (77 perfs)
Synopsis
Madame Marly, the famous French actress, lives in a Highland manse, caring for her “secret” daughter, Marigold, who believes she is an orphan. Marigold goes absent, forsaking the wasp-ridden raspberry garden to see Queen Victoria's Edinburgh visit and to see a certain handsome Captain Archie Forsyth. With a comic Scottish aunt, Mrs Pringle, a text-quoting divinity student, Peter Gloag, and James Payton, a turnip loving suitor, the show features such delights as the whole company executing an elaborate Scottish Reel, and a scene where Captain Forsyth and his fellow officers get progressively more and more tipsy as they sample different liquors drinking a heath to Her Majesty.
Musical Numbers
- Romance at the Manse - Mrs Pringle & Chorus
- Love Can't Be Learned - Marigold & Chorus
- The New Bohemian Polka - Lt Duncannon, Captain Lumsden, Mordan, Major Sellar, Captain Innes & Chorus
- According to Mr Payton - Marigold, Mrs Pringle & Chorus
- Always Ask Your Heart - Archie Forsyth
- Princes Street - Marigold & Chorus
- Her Majesty's Health - Archie Forsyth & Chorus
- Wonderful View - Archie Forsyth & Marigold
- Reel - Chorus
- Present Day Youth - Company
- Reprise: Always Ask Your Heart - Archie
- Fashionable Pair - Marigold, Mrs Pringle & Chorus
- Finale