a lecture on fatherly love, then is dismissed by the Regent, who finds, for the first time, that he has lost the mastery of a situation. The Prince Regent relents enough to command Nicolas to attend the Foreign Office Ball and orders him to have a good time, while the Queen Mother drafts Mary to accompany Nicolas. The Regent has invited the elegantly beautiful and compliant Lady Sunningdale to supper after the ball. She has every virtue but virtue itself. Strolling through the streets after the ball, Mary entertains Nicolas with the hilariously complex plot of The Coconut Girl, the touching story of a nut tycoon and his daughter, The Coconut Girl, who becomes involved variously with two Yale men, an Italian villa, a garden swing, some gambling casino chorus girls, a coconut blight and a dance called The Walla Bolla Boola. Back at the Embassy, Mary confounds the Prince Regent by reading him a proclamation she has drafted for Nicolas, renouncing his conspiracy with the Germans to overthrow his father, who insists that firmness toward his son has brought order to Carpathian chaos. Mary's comforting sympathy elicits the Prince Regent's happy admission that this is the time for true love. In the morning, the Prince Regent, a new man, makes arrangements for Mary's return with him to Carpathia and decrees free elections at home. But Mary realises the impossibility of his happy plans. With tender longing the lovers bid adieu, with the frail hope that someday - perhaps in Paris - they will be reunited. Weary now of the power he had clung to so fiercely, the Prince Regent wistfully reflects that he will remember her and leaves. As all the gilt and grandeur about her silently recedes, Mary departs, lingering only to pluck one rose, fragrant with memories. Taken from original notes by Curtis F Brown MUSICAL NUMBERS: 1. Swing Song - Jessie Maynard, Tony Morelli, Ensemble 2. Yasni Kozkolai (Carpathian National Anthem) - Ensemble 3. My Family Tree - Charles, Peter, Regent's Aides 4. I've Been Invited to a Party - Mary 5. Waltz - Ensemble 6. I've Been Invited to a Party (reprise) - Mary 7. When Foreign Princes Come to Visit Us - Major-Domo, Footmen 8. Sir or Ma'am - Peter 9. Soliloquies - Charles, Mary 10. Lonely Charles 11. London Is a Little Bit of All Right - Ada 12. What Ho, Mrs. Brisket - Ada, Ensmble 13. Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army - Ada, Ensemble 14. Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown - Ada, King Nicholas, Ensemble 15. London Is a Little Bit of All Right (reprise) - Ada 16. Here and Now - Mary 17. I've Been Invited to a Party (reprise) - Mary 18. Soliloquies (reprise) - Charles, Mary 19. Coronation Chorale - Mary, Charles, Principals, Ensemble 20. How Do You Do, Middle Age? - Charles 21. Here and Now (reprise) - Mary 22. The Stingaree - Charles, Lady Sunningdale, Ensemble 23. Curt, Clear and Concise - Charles, Peter 24. Tango - Charles, Mary, Dancing Ensemble 25. The Cocoanut Girl: Welcome to Pootzie Van Doyle/Paddy MacNeil and His 26. Automobile/Swing Song/Six Lillies of the Valley/The Walla Walla Boola - Mary 27. This Time It's True Love Mary 28. This Time It's True Love (reprise) - Charles 29. I'll Remember Her - Charles
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