The Wizard of the Nile

Roles and original cast

• Kibosh, a Persian magician, making a professional tour of Egypt – Frank Daniels
• Abydos, his apprentice – Louise Royce
• Ptolemy, King of Egypt – Walter Allen
• Simoona, Ptolemy's second wife – Mary Palmer
• Cleopatra, a Princess who knows naught of love – Dorothy Morton
• Ptarmigan, Cleopatra's music teacher – Edwin Isham
• Cheops, the royal weather bureau – Louis Casavant
• Obeliska, captain of the Amazons – Helen Redmond
• Netocris, lieutenant of the Amazons – Claudia Carlstedt
• Merza, first maid-of-honor to Cleopatra – Grace Rutter

  Musical numbers

• Overture

• No. 1 Ensemble – "Aïah! Aïah! Aïah! Aïah! Father Nile, keep us in thy care"
• No. 2 Obeliska and Cheops, with Chorus – "He's not egotistic, but most optimistic"
• No. 3 Oriental March – "Strew the way with flow'rets blooming"
• No. 4 Ptolemy, Simoona and Chorus – "I am the ruler of the whole Egyptian nation"
• No. 5 Kibosh and Chorus – "Of all the magicians of lofty positions who give exhibitions, I'm easily King."
• No. 6a Chorus – "Pure and white is the Lotos Lily flower, tira la!"
• No. 6b Chorus and Cleopatra – "I have been a-maying, though the month is June"
• No. 7 Kibosh and Cleopatra – "Tell me, tell me prithee tell me"
• No. 8 Ptarmigan – "If it were for me to lead to glory"
• No. 9 Finale Act I – "Strew the way with flow'rets blooming, deck the paths with garlands gay."

• No. 10 Serenade, with Abydos and Cheops – "List to our matin serenade, Princess, Princess fair"
• No. 10a Scene –
• No. 11 Ptarmigan and Cleopatra – "If I were a King, I would kneel, sweetheart, to thee"
• No. 12 Cleopatra, Abydos, Simoona, Ptolemy and Cheops – "On Cleopatra's wedding day"
• No. 13 Kibosh and Chorus – "She kept her secret well"
• No. 14 Finale Act II – "Oh agony, unutterable woe!"

• No. 15 Introduction and Stonecutters' Song, Ptarmigan and Male Chorus – "Work away, work away with a song, my boys."
• No. 16 Cleopatra – "I seem to have known you my whole life long"
• No. 16a Entrance of Kibosh, Simoona, Ptolemy and Cheops
• No. 17 Waltz Quintette: Abydos, Simoona, Kibosh, Cheops and Ptolemy – "When sitting alone at eventide"
• No. 18 Pages' Chorus – "To the pyramid softly stealing now we come"
• No. 19 Echo Duet – Kibosh, Ptolemy and Pages - "In our bravery we're peerless"
• No. 20 Finale Act III – "Ah! love we know"