A Chinese Honeymoon

Roles and original cast

• Hang Chow – Picton Roxborough
• Chippee Chop – E. Boyd-Jones
• Hi Lung – Percy Clifton
• Tom Hatherton – Leslie Stiles
• Mr Pineapple – Lionel Rignold
• Florrie, Violet, Millie and Gertie – Fay Wentworth, Blanche Thorpe, Rosie Edwardes and Florence Burdett
• Mrs Brown – M. A. Victor
• Yen Yen and Sing Sing – Jessica Lait and Fanny Wright
• Mi Mi – Madge Temple
• Soo Soo – Beatrice Edwards
• Mrs Pineapple – Marie Dainton
• Fi Fi – Louie Freear

  Synopsis

Musical numbers

• No. 1 – Opening Chorus – "In Ylang Ylang where the ruby river rolls its billows"
• No. 1a – Chorus Exit – "It's Roly Poly, Roly Poly, o'er the sea once more"
• No. 2 – Song – Soo-Soo & Chorus – "In the days of the ancient long ago in a quaint little Chinese town"
• No. 3 – Chorus – Entry of the Emperor, and Song – "Hail, hail, hail all hail!"
• No. 3a – Reprise for Exit – "And this is the hand that seeks a mate"
• No. 4 – Sextette – Mr. & Mrs. Pineapple & Bridesmaids – "Three months ago we stepp'd aboard a great big ocean ship"
• No. 5 – Song – Mrs. Pineapple & Chorus – "The à la girl is an English girl with lots of à la ways"
• No. 6 – Nursery Rhymes Sextette – Tom, Fi Fi, Hi Lung, Mrs. Brown, Yen Yen and Mr. Pine – "Sing a song of sixpence"
• No. 7 – Song – Fi Fi & Chorus – "I'm awfully partial to music, so I bought a piano one day"
• No. 8 – Finale Act I – "Gather, gather, man and maiden come with bridal blessings laden"

• No. 9 – Opening Chorus – "With weary hearts we wait about, the bride to greet"
• No. 10 – Song – Fi Fi & Chorus – "Some people sigh for beauty and some yearn for this and that"
• No. 11 – Song – Soo Soo & Chorus – "Dolly was a baby just as others may be, with a pair of eyes of blue"
• No. 12 – Song – Mr. Pineapple – "I dreamed a dream the other night, I thought that I had flown..."
• No. 13 – Octette – Emperor, Yen, Tom, Soo Soo, Mr. & Mrs. Pineapple, Fi Fi & Hi Lung – "There's nothing like a little pat"
• No. 14 – Chorus – "Welcome, official mother-in-law, let the cymbals clang"
• No. 15 – Duet – Soo Soo & Tom – "Along the way where lovers go the roses red are twining"
• No. 16 – Duet – Hi Lung & Mrs. Pineapple – "We'll give some little tit-bits from the plays"
• No. 17 – Duet – Emperor & Fi Fi – "Now once there was a Mandarin, who for a sweetheart yearn'd"
• No. 18 – Song – Fi Fi & Chorus – "You no doubt heard of the happy home where music is ador'd"
• No. 19 – Finale Act II – "For he is the bridegroom and she is the bride"

• No. 20 – Sestet – Hang Chow, Mi Mi, Hi Lung, Yen Yen, Chippee, & Fi Fi – "The force of good example is a power beyond dispute"
• No. 21 – Song – "Maidee of Ohio" – "I'se a coloured lady and I've just come up to town"
• No. 22 – Song & Chorus – "While passing through the busy streets of busy London town"
• No. 23 – Cake Walk and Two-Step