Songs in The Boatswain's Mate

Overture

Part 1

Scene One

• Intro ‘When rocked on the billows, that roughest of pillows’ - Ben, Mary Ann, Mrs Waters
• Dialogue ‘So you’re going to spend the night with your mother?’ - Benn, Mary Ann

Scene Two

• Scene ‘As I was saying when the girl come in’ - Benn, Mrs Waters
• Dialogue ‘It’s a strange thing, Mr Benn’ - Mrs Waters, Benn

Scene Three

• Aria ‘O what a cruel word to utter’ - Benn

Scene Four

• Dialogue ‘Well, old cock, if stamping about and swearing’ - Travers, Benn
• No. 1 Duet for two Piccolos
• No. 2 ‘A friend and I were on the pier’ - Travers, Benn
• Dialogue ‘If you’ve quite done’ - Benn, Travers
• No. 3 ‘That’s the plan, is it?’ - Travers, Benn
• Dialogue ‘At 2.30 sharp I’ll be here’ - Travers, Benn

Scene Five

• Dialogue ‘Well Mr Ben, done any business?’ - Mrs Waters, Benn

Scene Six

• Dialogue ‘Pussy, pussy, pussy!’ - Mrs Waters
• Scene ‘Supposed you mean to do a given thing’ - Mrs Waters
• Aria ‘What if I were young again’ - Mrs Waters

Scene Seven

• Dialogue ‘Well there’s a cure for dreaming’ - Mrs Waters
• Chorus ‘O Mary I try to forget you!’ - Three Laborers, Mrs Waters, Chorus

Intermezzo

Part Two

Scene One

• Scene ‘If those cats don’t wake her’ - Travers, Ben

Scene Two

• Aria ‘A rickety stair’ - Travers

Scene Three

• Duet ‘I thought I heard a noise’ - Mrs Waters, Travers

Scene Four

• Trio ‘Murder’, ‘I’m coming’ - Mrs Waters, Benn, Travers

Scene Five

• Trio ‘I’d not have missed that’ - Travers, Mrs Waters, Benn

Scene Six

• Quartet ‘Well I’m sure!’ - Mrs Waters, Benn, Policeman, Travers
• Quartet ‘Drink or love’ - Benn, Travers, Policeman, Mrs Waters

Scene Seven

• Scene and Duet ‘There, that’s done!’ - Mrs Waters, Travers

Scene Eight

• Aria ‘A wrinkle!’ - Mrs Waters, Mary Ann, Travers