Overview
Synopsis
Fresh out of finishing school in Switzerland, beautiful young Evangeline is on a quest to lose her innocence. Miss Pratt, her school teacher, has urged Evangeline and her classmates to "experiment" and Evangeline has taken this advice to heart. Her quest takes her to the beach at Neauville, the Cafe du Dome in Paris, a palazzo in Venice, and a harem in Turkey without any success. Returning home to Oxford dejected and defeated, she receives an unexpected and welcome proposition from the family gardener.
Show Information
- Book
- Romney Brent
- Music
- Cole Porter
- Lyrics
- Cole Porter
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- Genres
- Farce
- Cast Size
- large
- Ideal For
- Mostly Female Cast, Large Cast
Context
Plot
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Songs
- Experiment - Mrs. Pratt and chorus
- It's Bad for Me - Evangeline
- Neauville-sur-Mer - Chorus
- The Cocotte - Clarissa
- How Could We Be Wrong? - Evangeline and chorus
- They're Always Entertaining - Chorus
- Georgia Sand - Henrietta and chorus
- Nymph Errant - Evangeline and company
- Ruins - Chorus
- The Physician - Evangeline
- Solomon - Haidee
- Back to Nature With You - Evangeline and Ben
- Plumbing - Ben
- Si vous aimez les poitrines - Madeline and chorus
- You're Too Far Away - Alexei
- Sweet Nudity ‡ - Girls and Boys
- Cazanova - Henrietta
- Concert Finale:Experiment - Company
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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