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Sinbad (1918 musical)

Sinbad is a Broadway musical with a book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge and music by Sigmund Romberg, Al Jolson and others. Jolson plays a porter in old Bagdad where he meets a series of characters from the Arabian Nights, including Sinbad. He is transported to various exotic settings.

Synopsis
At a Long Island country club, Nan Van Decker, a wealthy socialite, struggles to choose which of two men to entrust with a financial matter. She consults a crystal ball, and the ball reveals to her exotic Arabian scenes and people, including Inbad the porter and a middle-eastern version of the Long Island valet, Gus. Fantasy sequences follow, and Inbad meets a series of characters from the Arabian Nights, including Sinbad the Sailor. ==Songs==
Songs
Music by Romberg and lyrics by Atteridge, except as otherwise indicated: ;Act 1 • On Cupid's Green – Mildred and Boy and Girl Golfers • A Little Bit of Every Nationality – Patricia De Trait and Our Allied Beauties • Our Ancestors – Prince Stubb Talmage, Princess Audrey Van Decker and Cave Men and Girls • A Thousand and One Arabian Nights – A Cobbler, A Slave Girl and Van Rennsellar Sinbad • Where Do They Get Those Guys? – Tessie Verdear • Beauty and the Beast – A Court Lady, Winter Garden Blue Ribbon Girls and Meehan's Leaping Hounds • Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (music by Jean Schwartz; lyrics by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis) – Inbad the Porter • Take the Night Boat to Albany (music by Schwartz; lyrics by Lewis and Young) – Inbad • Bagdad – A Cobbler and Arabian Desert Girls • The Rag Lad of Bagdad (music by Jolson and Romberg) – Stubb, Audrey, Frank, Grace, Kickem and Rag Lad Girls • A Night in the Orient – Amina and Oriental Dreams • I Hail from Cairo – Tessie and Cairo Girls • Love Ahoy! – Jeanette Verdear, Kickem, Tapem and Love Ahoy Sailor Girls • The Bedalumbo (music by Jolson) – Stubb, Kickem, Tapem and Yama Yama Girls ;Act 2 • Isle of Youth – Love and Beauties of Greece • I'll Tell the World (music and lyrics by Atteridge and Buddy DeSylva) – Van Rennsellar Sinbad and Isle of Youth Dreams • It's Wonderful – Audrey and Some Wonderful Girls • Raz-Ma-Taz (music by Jolson) – Stubb, Frank, Johnny and Jazz Girls ;Later songs interpolated: • Darktown Dancin’ School (lyric by Jack Yellen, music by Albert Gemble) – • I'm Not Jealous (words by Harry Pease, music by Ed G. Nelson and Fred Mayo) – • My Mammy (words by Young and Lewis, music by Walter Donaldson) – • Tell That To the Marines (words by Atteridge, music by Schwartz and Jolson) • I'll Say She Does (by DeSylva, Gus Kahn and Jolson) – • Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land (by Young, Lewis and Schwartz) – • Chloe (by DeSylva and Jolson) – • Swanee (by Irving Caesar and George Gershwin) – ==References==
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