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The Girl Who Came to Supper is a musical with a book by Harry Kurnitz and music and lyrics by Noël Coward, based on Terence Rattigan's 1953 play The Sleeping Prince. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1963.
PLOT
The story is set in 1911 London at the time of George V's coronation. American-born chorus girl Mary Morgan becomes involved with Balkan archduke Charles, the widowed prince regent of Carpathia, after he sees a performance of her West End musical The Coconut Girl. She soon becomes involved with the actions of his teenaged son, King Nicholas, as well as the Queen Mother. A peripheral character, fish-and-chips peddler Ada Cockle, appears to be present solely to entertain the audience with a rousing fifteen-minute rendition of traditional Cockney tunes.
1963 Broadway
The Girl Who Came to Supper the Musical Lyrics
Act I
1. Swing Song
2. Yasni Kozkolai
3. My Family Tree
4. I've Been Invited to a Party
5. Waltz
6. I've Been Invited to a Party (Reprise)
7. When Foreign Princes Come to Visit Us
8. Sir or Ma'am
9. Soliloquies
10. Lonely
11. London is a Little Bit of All Right
12. What Ho, Mrs. Brisket
13. Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army
14. Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown
15. London Is a Little Bit of All Right (Reprise)
16. Here and Now
17. I've Been Invited to a Party (Reprise)
18. Soliloquies (Reprise)
Act II
1. Coronation Chorale
2. How Do You Do, Middle Age?
3. Here and Now (Reprise)
4. The Stingaree
5. Curt, Clear and Concise
6. Tango
7. Welcome to Pootzie Van Doyle
8. The Coconut Girl
9. Paddy MacNeill and His Automobile
10. Swing Song (Reprise)
11. Six Lillies of the Valley
12. The Walla Walla Boola
13. This Time It's True Love
14. I'll Remember Her
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