page_title: The Blue Moon (musical)
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: The Blue Moon (musical) / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appearance in The Blue Moon which played at the Lyric Theatre in London, England.
context_page_description: The Blue Moon is an Edwardian musical comedy with music composed by Howard Talbot and Paul Rubens, lyrics by Percy Greenbank and Rubens and a book by Harold Ellis and by Alexander M. Thompson. It is set in India during the days of the British Raj, and concerns the love of a singing girl for a young British army officer.
  It ran in London in 1905, starring Courtice Pounds, and was then played in the English provinces and in America and Australia.
context_section_description: "The Blue Moon", The Play Pictorial, May 1905, pp. 121–36
  "Prospective Arrangements", The Times, 26 August 1905, p. 6
  Taubner, Richard. Operetta: a theatrical history. (2003), p. 196, Psychology Press, ISBN 0-415-96641-8
  "Prince's Theatre", The Manchester Guardian, 23 October 1906, p. 7
  "New Musical Show", The New York Times, 4 November 1906
  "The Blue Moon", The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 October 1907, p. 17
  Johnson, Colin M. "The Blue Moon", Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 29 May 2017. That site also lists four supplementary numbers – a duet for Chandra and Jack ("Out of the radiant East") composed by Talbot; a song for the Major and chorus ("Though I'm a gallant Major, I'm not like all the rest") and a song for Bobbie and chorus ("Attracted I was by a maiden I met in London Town"), both composed by Rubens; and a song "The White Pomerian", composed by George M. Saker.
  "Lyric Theatre", The Times, 29 August 1905, p. 7
  "At the Play", The Observer, 3 September 1905, p. 7
  The Daily Mail, 29 August 1905
caption: Billie Burke as Evelyn Ormsby.
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