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A MUSICAL PLAY i PRESENTED BY ; THE QUINCY COLLEGE MUSIC DEPARTMENT Founded on Justin Huntley McCarthy ' s ROMANCE IF I WERE KING i Music by RUDOLF FRIML Book and Lyrics by W. H. POST and BRIAN HOOKER Production Directed By CLOYCE M. ENLOW This production by arrangement with Samuel French 25 West 45th St. New York, N. Y. j! Broadway Press ai ggg 15 Quincy, Illinois ► ..... ... ■ . . ■ T -■- '
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COMMITTEES Director— C. M. ENLOW Soloists Mrs. John T. Inghrctm, Sr. Orchestra Benedict Di Dia Student Director .... James Wellman Stage and Scenery Fr. Vincent Elsen, O.F. M. THE Francois Villon, thief, vagabond, and poet of the fifteenth century, is the hero of many wild, un- authenticated tales. The Vagabond King is one of the more romantic of these stories about France ' s finest lyric poet of the Middle Ages. This is a tale of which we might well say, It could have happened , because of Villon ' s known love for Katherine de Vaucelles and because of King Louis XI ' S known interest in the common people of France. The poet whose famous line, Where are the snows of yesteryear? is familiar to us, speaks many more of his singing verses in this operetta. The contradictory King who believed that He who has success has honor, yet who did more than any other French King to unify and industrialize France, is pictured here in all his scheming, half- superstitious, half-psychic moods. As the play opens, the Burgundians are at the gates of Paris in an attempt to wrest the throne from Louis XI for the Duke of Burgundy. Margot, proprietress of the Fir Cone Tavern is serving drinks to the scum of Old Paris, faithful followers of Francois Villon, vagabond leader. Among these are Huguette, who loves him. Guy Tabarie, his closest companion, and Casin. Rene de Montigny, jealous of Huguette, and Thibaut D ' Aussigny, Grand Marshall of France, meet there to plot against Louis for Burgundy. STORY When Villon arrives, his thoughts are of Lady Katherine de Vaucelles whom he has seen in the church and to whom he has been writing love verses. When Katherine appears at the Tavern to tell Villon of Thibaut ' s plot, he fights Thibaut and wounds him. King Louis and Tristant, who have come incognito, to spy on Katherine, have Francois and his followers arrested. The King, whose astrologer prophesies Villon will save France, causes Francois to be elevated to Grand Marshall for one day. At the end of twenty-four hours he must hang unless he can win Lady Katherine. Not recognizing him as the Vagabond poet. Lady Katherine promises him her hand if he defeats the Burgundians. Lady Mary maid-in-waiting to Katherine, is engaged to Oliver, Master of the Royal Bath. With many comical dif- ficulties, Tabarie, who has also been forced to come to court, strives to win her away from Oliver. Thibaut, recovered from his wound, plans to kidnap the King. His plot is revealed to Villon by Huguette with tragic consequences for her. Feel- ing that he must not act under false pretenses, Vil- lon, tells Katherine who he is. She is shocked and spurns him. In spite of this he departs to lead his Paris rabble against the Burgundians. In the King ' s garden, the conflict between Kath- erine and Villon is resolved in a gripping, surprise ending. THE RED MILL 1948
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