page_title: Adrian Ross
section_title: List of stage works
hierarchical_section_title: Adrian Ross / Life and career / List of stage works
caption_attribution_description: English: Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn1867053 Australian sheet music from A Southern Maid, c. 1917 featuring Gladys Moncrieff. Music by Harold Fraser-Simson.
context_page_description: Arthur Reed Ropes, better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the most important lyricist of the British stage during a career that spanned five decades. At a time when few shows had long runs, nineteen of his West End shows ran for over 400 performances.
  Starting out in the late 1880s, Ross wrote the lyrics for the earliest British musical theatre hits, including In Town, The Shop Girl and The Circus Girl. Ross next wrote the lyrics for a string of hit musicals, beginning with A Greek Slave, San Toy, The Messenger Boy and The Toreador and continuing without a break through World War I. He also wrote the English lyrics for a series of hit adaptations of European operettas beginning with The Merry Widow in 1907.
  During World War I, Ross was one of the founders of the Performing Rights Society. He continued writing until 1930, producing several more successes after the war. He also wrote the popular novel The Hole of the Pit and a number of short stories.
context_section_description: Ross contributed lyrics to the following musicals and comic operas, often in collaboration with other lyricists:
  Faddimir, or The Triumph of Orthodoxy (1889)
  Joan of Arc (1891) (400+ performances in total)
  Don Juan (1892, starring Roberts)
  The Young Recruit (1892)
  In Town (1892) (292 performances)
  Morocco Bound (1893) (295 performances)
  Go-Bang (1894) (129 performances)
  The Shop Girl (1894) (546 performances)
  Mirette revised English version (1894) (total of 102 performances in both versions)
  Bobbo (1895)
  Biarritz (1896) (71 performances)
  My Girl (1896) (183 performances)
  Weather or No (1896) (209 performances)
  The Circus Girl (1896) (497 performances)
  His Majesty, or The Court of Vignolia (1897) (61 performances)
  The Ballet Girl (1897)
  The Grand Duchess (1897) (104 performances)
  The Transit of Venus (1898)
  Billy (1898)
  A Greek Slave (1898) (349 performances)
  Milord Sir Smith (1898) (82 performances)
  The Lucky Star (1899) (143 performances)
  San Toy (1899) (768 performances)
  The Messenger Boy (1900) (429 performances)
  The Toreador (1901) (675 performances)
  Kitty Grey (1901) (220 performances)
  A Country Girl (1902) (729 performances)
  The Girl from Kays (1903) (432 performances; 236 performances on Broadway)
  The Orchid (1903) (559 performances)
  The Cingalee (1904) (365 performances)
  The Spring Chicken (1905) (401 performances)
  The Little Cherub (1906) (114 performances)
  Naughty Nero (1906)
  The New Aladdin (1906) (203 performances)
  See-See (1906) (152 performances).
  Les Merveilleuses (1906) (196 performances)
  The Girls of Gottenberg (1907) (303 performances)
  The Merry Widow (1907) (778 performances; 416 performances on Broadway, and many revivals)
  A Waltz Dream (1908) (146 performances)
  Havana (1908) (221 performances; 231 performances on Broadway)
  King of Cadonia (1908) (333 performances)
  The Dollar Princess (1909) (428 performances)
  The Antelope (1909)
  Our Miss Gibbs (1909) (636 performances)
  The Dashing Little Duke (1909) (101 performances)
  The Arcadians (1910, 809 performances; Broadway production: 201 performances)
  Captain Kidd (1910)
  The Girl in the Train (1910) (340 performances)
  The Quaker Girl (1911) (536 performances; 248 performances on Broadway)
  Madame Sherry (1911: 231 performances on Broadway)
  Castles in the Air (Frau Luna) (1911)
  The Count of Luxembourg (1911) (240 performances)
  Gipsy Love (1912) (299 performances)
  The Wedding Morning (1912)
  Tantalising Tommy (1912)
  The Dancing Mistress (1912) (241 performances)
  The Girl on the Film (Filmzauber) (1913) (232 performances)
  The Marriage Market (Lednyedsdr) (1913)
  The Girl from Utah (1913) (195 performances)
  The Belle of Bond Street revised version of The Girl from Kays (1914)
  Betty (1915) (391 performances)
  The Light Blues (1915)
  The Happy Day (1916) (241 performances)
  Theodore & Co (1916) (503 performances)
  Oh! Caesar (1916) (toured only)
  The Happy Family (1916)
  Arlette (1917)
  The Boy (1917) (801 performances)
  Three Cheers (1917) (revue)
  Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) (400 performances)
  The Kiss Call (1919)
  Maggie (1919)
  The Eclipse (1919)
  Medorah (1920)
  A Southern Maid (1920) (306 performances)
  The Love Flower (1920)
  The Naughty Princess (1920) (280 performances – at the Adelphi Theatre)
  Faust on Toast (1921)
  Love's Awakening (1921)
  Lilac Time (1922) (626 performances)
  The Cousin from Nowhere (1922; Der Vetter aus Dingsda, 1921, composed by Eduard Künneke) (105 performances)
  Head Over Heels (1923)
  The Beloved Vagabond (1927) (107 performances)
  Frederica (Friederike) (1930) (music by Franz Lehár)
  The Toymaker of Nuremberg (1930) (32 performances)
caption: Sheet music from A Southern Maid
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