List of patter songs

This is a list of some of the best known patter songs.

Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan

• Auber: Le domino noir Ã¢Â€Â“ "Je suis sauvée enfin"
• Cornelius: Der Barbier von Bagdad Ã¢Â€Â“ "Bin Akademiker, Doktor und Chemiker"
• Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore Ã¢Â€Â“ "Udite, Udite, o rustici", middle section (Dulcamara)
• Donizetti: Don Pasquale Ã¢Â€Â“ "Cheti, cheti, immantinente", final section (duet for Don Pasquale and Doctor Malatesta)
• Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila Ã¢Â€Â“ Farlaf's Rondo «Близок уж час торжества моего» (Farlaf)
• Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Ã¢Â€Â“ "La vendetta, oh, la vendetta", final section (Bartolo)
• Mozart: Don Giovanni Ã¢Â€Â“ "Fin ch'han dal vino" (Don Giovanni)
• Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Ã¢Â€Â“ "Solche hergelaufne Laffen", especially the final section of the aira (Osmin)
• Mozart: "Clarice cara mia sposa", aria for Tenor, K. 256
• Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Ã¢Â€Â“ "Largo al factotum", final section (Figaro); "A un dottor de la mia sorte" (Bartolo)
• Rossini: La Cenerentola Ã¢Â€Â“ "Sia qualunque delle figlie", final section (Don Magnifico)
• Rossini: "La Danza"
• Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims Ã¢Â€Â“ "Medaglie incomparabili" (Don Profondo)
• Offenbach: La jolie parfumeuse Ã¢Â€Â“ "Neighbors Chorus"

Gilbert and Sullivan

• Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box Ã¢Â€Â“ "My Master Is Punctual" (Mr. Cox)
• Gilbert and Sullivan (referred to below as "Sullivan"): The Gondoliers Ã¢Â€Â“ "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro, with Duchess, Casilda and Luiz)
• Sullivan: The Gondoliers Ã¢Â€Â“ "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe)
• Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore Ã¢Â€Â“ "When I Was a Lad" (Sir Joseph)
• Sullivan: Iolanthe Ã¢Â€Â“ "Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest" (the "Nightmare song"; Lord Chancellor)
• Sullivan: The Mikado Ã¢Â€Â“ "As someday it may happen" (Ko-Ko)
• Sullivan: Patience Ã¢Â€Â“ "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel Calverley)
• Sullivan: Patience Ã¢Â€Â“ "If you're anxious for to shine" (Bunthorne)
• Sullivan: Patience Ã¢Â€Â“ "So go to him and say to him" (Bunthorne and Lady Jane)
• Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance Ã¢Â€Â“ "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley)
• Sullivan: Princess Ida Ã¢Â€Â“ "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama)
• Sullivan: Ruddigore Ã¢Â€Â“ "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin)
• Sullivan: Ruddigore Ã¢Â€Â“ "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times" (Robin)
• Sullivan: Ruddigore Ã¢Â€Â“ "My eyes are fully open to my awful situation" (Robin, Despard, and Margaret).
• Sullivan: The Sorcerer Ã¢Â€Â“ "My name is John Wellington Wells" (J. W. Wells)
• Sullivan: Trial by Jury Ã¢Â€Â“ "When I, good friends, was called to the bar" (the Learned Judge)
• Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard Ã¢Â€Â“ "I've Jibe and Joke. ... I've wisdom from the East and from the West" (Jack Point)
• Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard Ã¢Â€Â“ "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Jack Point)

After G&S: selected showtunes

• Ashman & Menken: "Now (It's Just the Gas)" from Little Shop of Horrors
• Lionel Bart: "Reviewing the Situation" from Oliver!
• Cy Coleman: "Museum Song" from Barnum
• Comden & Green: "If You Hadn't, But You Did" from Two on the Aisle
• Frankel & Korie: "The Revolutionary Costume" from Grey Gardens
• Rupert Holmes: "Both Sides of the Coin" from Drood
• Eric Idle: "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" from Spamalot
• Kander & Ebb: "The Money Song" from Cabaret
• Kander & Ebb: "We Both Reached for the Gun" from Chicago
• George Gershwin: "The Mophams" from Primrose
• George Gershwin: "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess
• Bock & Harnick: "Tonight at Eight" from She Loves Me
• Jerry Herman: "Penny in My Pocket" from Hello, Dolly!
• Jonathan Larson: "Therapy" from Tick, Tick... Boom!
• Lerner & Loewe: "Why Can't the English?", "I'm an Ordinary Man" and "A Hymn to Him" from My Fair Lady
• Roger Miller: "The Royal Nonesuch" from Big River
• Laurence O'Keefe: "Show You a Thing or Two" from '
• Cole Porter: "Let's Not Talk About Love" from Let's Face It!
• Stephen Schwartz: "All for the Best" from Godspell
• Sherman Brothers: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins
• Stephen Sondheim: "Another Hundred People" and "Getting Married Today" from Company
• Stephen Sondheim: "Now" from A Little Night Music
• Stephen Sondheim: "The Worst Pies In London" and "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd
• Stephen Sondheim: "Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George
• Stephen Sondheim: "Mr. Goldstone, I Love You" from Gypsy
• Stephen Sondheim: "Your Fault" from Into the Woods
• Stephen Sondheim: "Franklin Shepard, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along
• Jeanine Tesori: "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie adapts portions of "My eyes are fully open" from Ruddigore
• Kurt Weill: "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" from Lady in the Dark
• Meredith Willson: "Rock Island (opening sequence)" and "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man
• David Yazbek: "Model Behavior" from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown