Rip Van Winkle (operetta)

Performance history

French version

Roles and original cast

• Rip Van Winkle – Fred Leslie
• Derrick Van Slous – W. S. Penley
• Peter Van Dunk – Louis Kelleher
• Diedrich Knickerbocker – E. Wilmore
• Captain Hugh Rowley – Fred Darrell
• Nick Vedder – Lionel Brough
• Gretchen – Violet Cameron
• Sara And Jacintha – Clara Graham and Constance Lewis
• Katrina – Sadie Martinot
• Little Hardcase – Madge Milton
• Hans – Effie Mason
• Alice – Alice Vicat
• Tom Tit – Rosie Moncrieff
• Leedle Jan – Master Gollop
• Gape – Grace Hawke
• Captain Hendrick Hudson – S. H. Perry
• Four Lieutenants – W. S. Rising, Constance Lewis, Clara Graham and Miss Rosie Moncrieff
• Cabin Boy – Madge Milton
• The Goblin Steward – Mr. Storey
• Master Gunner – M. Villa
• Max Schneider – Clara Graham
• Chicken – Rosie Moncrieff
• Mopps – Madge Milton

• Alice Van Winkle – Violet Cameron
• Lieut. Hans Van Slous – W. S. Rising
• Jan Vedder – Lionel Brough

  Musical numbers

• Overture

• No. 1. Chorus, Scene and Couplets - "Far and near our cry be heard, Long life to great George the Third!"
• No. 2. Exit of Peasants, etc. - "Yes, it is a common thing, thus to use one's Queen or King"
• No. 3. Rip Van Winkle - "Oh! where's my girl of whom I'm fond? Wherever can my darling be?"
• No. 4. Canoe Song - Gretchen & Rip - "Where floweth the wild Mohawk river, a-down the long rushes that quiver"
• No. 5. Chorus of Cowards - "Can't you see we're coming? "
• No. 6. Legend of the Kaatskils - Gretchen & Chorus - "From deep forest hoary, lift in awful glory mountains grey and old"
• No. 7. Rip Van Winkle & Children - "Ere the marriage contract is drawn, what have you got to live upon?"
• No. 8. Rondo - Katrina & Chorus - "'Tis the hour we girls ne'er fail, with a pitcher and a tale, at the old draw-well"
• No. 9. Finale Act I - "When I come back 'twill be no more to roam; thenceforth to stay with thee at home"

• Entr'acte & Melodrame
• No. 10. Lantern Chorus & Ballad - Gretchen & Katrina - "By the thicket path we are trudging slow"
• No. 10½. Exit & Reprise - "Our search in vain, let's home again! By the thicket path we are trudging slow"
• No. 11. Patrol Chorus - "Keep all in step! Keep all in step! Keep all in step! The night is dark and low'ring"
• No. 12. Gretchen, Rip & Derrick - "Now won't you come along with me? You do not care for me I see!"
• No. 13. Echo Song - Rip van Winkle & Chorus - "Ho! ho! ho! ho! Friend echoes, why do ye fail?"
• No. 13½. Melodrame -

• No. 14. Scene - Rip & Chorus, and Sea Song - Hudson, - "Hendrick Hudson I am call'd, from the underwaters hailing"
• No. 15. Nine-Pins Song - 2nd. Lieutenant & Chorus - "Say, my lads, what game we'll play?"
• No. 16. Serenade - 1st. Lieutenant & Chorus - "I've had lady-loves in my day, with lips rose-red and a lustrous eye"
• No. 17. Pas Seul - Danse des Buveurs, and Pas de Fascination
• No. 18. Finale Act II - "Sunk to sleep on the ground, he's spell-bound! Slumber, mortal bold"

• Entr'acte and Woodcutters' Chorus - "Before our broad axes, lo! they fall, the kings of the forest, old and tall!"

• No. 19. Election Chorus, Couplets & Ensemble - Katrina - "Whatsoever may be won in this afternoon's elections"
• No. 20. Rondo - Katrina & Chorus - "Folks do say, who are wise and able, that when tongues got all mixt at Babel"
• No. 21. Letter Song - Alice - "I dare not break the seal! What fear, what doubt I feel... I've liv'd so long with sorrow"
• No. 22. Hammock Song - Lieutenant van Slous & Chorus - "Oh, proud and high the feeling, o'er the sailor stealing"
• No. 22½. Melodrame - Entrance of Rip Van Winkle
• No. 23. Rip - "The thirsty sun burns on the noon-tide brink, yet hotter, yet hotter!..."
• No. 24. Alice, Van Slous, & Rip - "I know you not! My father's dead!... Old man, I fear your reason's fled!"
• No. 25. Chorus - "Some say, now that the voting is done, the finish will be exciting"
• No. 26. Finale Act III - "From deep forest hoary, lift in awful glory, mountains grey and old, that myst'ry and tradition hold!"