I and Albert

A PDF of the original program can be found here: http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/webb/webb_programmes_index.html

I and Albert is a 1972 musical by composer Charles Strouse, and lyricist Lee Adams. The plot is based on the lives of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was adapted for the stage by Jay Presson Allen.

Production

The musical debuted in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre on 6 November 1972, under the direction of John Schlesinger, but proved a flop, running only for three months, 120 performances. British actress Polly James performed the role of Victoria opposite Sven-Bertil Taube as her husband Prince Albert.^[1] Lewis Fiander and Aubrey Woods had featured roles. Sarah Brightman made her stage debut in 1973 in this musical, as Vicky, the queen's eldest daughter, and a street waif, at age 13. Also in the cast was Simon Gipps-Kent as a young Prince Edward ("Bertie"), a role he would later reprise for television in Edward the Seventh.

The musical has not been performed on Broadway.

Songs

Act I

• Vivat! Vivat Regina!
• It Has All Begun
• Leave It Alone
• I've 'Eard The Bloody 'Indoos 'As It Worse
• This Gentle Land
• This Noble Land
• I and Albert
• Enough!
• Victoria

Act 2

• All Glass!
• The Genius Of Man
• The Victoria And Albert Waltz
• His Royal Highness
• Just You and Me
• Draw The Blinds
• The Widow At Windsor
• No One To Call Me Victoria
• When You Speak With A Lady
• Go It, Old Girl!
• Finale

Recording

The cast album is a studio recording that reunited some of the original principals in London in 1981.^[2]

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