Chee-Chee

• Original Broadway Production (1928)
  New York, NY
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2002)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Prelude
• We're Men of Brains
  • aka Eunuch's Chorus [no note]
• I Am a Prince
• In a Great Big Way
• The Most Majestic of Domestic Officials
  • aka Entrance of the Grand Eunuch [no note]
• Holy of Holies
  • aka Prayer [no note]
• Her Hair is Black as Licorice
  • aka Food Solo [no note]
• Dear, Oh Dear
• Await Your Love
  • aka Concubines Song [no note]
• Joy is Mine
• I Wake at Morning
  • aka Prelude to I Wake at Morning, A [no note]
• I Grovel to the Earth
  • aka Chee-Chee's First Entrance [no note]
• Just a Little Thing
• You Are Both Agreed
• Opening Scene 2
• I Must Love You
• Owl Song
  • aka Song of the Owl [no note]
• I Bow a Glad Good Day
  • aka Tavern Opening [no note]
• Better Be Good to Me
• The Tartar Song
• Chee-Chee's Second Entrance
• Finale Act 1
• Konghouse Song
• Sleep, Weary Head
• Singing a Love Song
• Monastery Opening
• Chinese Dance
• Living Buddah
  • aka Impassive Buddah [no note]
• Moon of My Delight
• I Grovel to Your Cloth
  • aka Chee-Chee's Third Entrance [no note]
• We Are the Horrors of Deadliest Woe
  • aka Chorus of Torments [no note]
• Oh, Gala Day, Red Letter Day
  • aka Palace Opening [no note]
• Farewell, Oh Life!

Cut prior to opening

• I'll Never Share You
  • aka If You Were My Concubine [no note]

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1963)
  

  • Betty Comden

Chee-Chee and her husband, Li-Pi Tchou, son of the Grand Eunuch, flee Peking to avoid his being his father's successor. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands, who beat our hero and carry off his wife, but he rescues her. Finally, the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and brings him back to be prepared for his high office.

Li-Li Wee, a friend of Chee-Chee's, persuades her husband to kidnap and impersonate the surgeon so that Li-Pi might escape. (Source: Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book, edited by Stanley Green, published by The Lynn Farnol Group.)

• The Son of the Grand Eunuch (source material)