15th April 1963 to 20th April 1963

The Show | Dramatis personę | The Production Team | The Orchestra

Otherwise known as The Story-Teller and the Slave

The Sultan Mahmoud of Persia

David Berridge

Hassan, a philanthropist

Peter Jenkyns

Yussuf, a professional story-teller

Robert Ladkin

Abdallah, a priest

Frank Powis

The Grand Vizier

Geoffrey Oakshott

The Physician in Chief

John Crossfield

The Royal Executioner

Albert Nixon

Royal Guard

Kenneth Howkins

The Sultana Zubeydeh

Margaret Ladkin

Scent-of-Lilies

the Sultana's favourite slaves

Jeanne Cavill

Heart's Desire

Margaret Stear

Honey-of-Life

Pamela Kell

Dancing Sunbeam, Hassan's first wife

Vera Shelford

Blush-of-Morning, Hassan's twenty-fifth wife

Eileen Coates

Oasis-in-the-Desert wives of Hassan

Iris Briggs

Moon-upon-the-Waters

Margaret Olivant

Song-of-Nightingales

Joanna Booth

Whisper-of-the-West-Wind

Betty Burnett

Hassan's wives & royal slaves

Desiree Barton, Joyce Blackwell, Joan Foster, Eileen Jarvis, Doreen Lankester, Ann Metcalf, Mary Myers, Dorothy Tabraham, Doris Thomson, Susan Turton

Beggars, palace officials & guards

John Bain, Robin Hodgson, Robert Langdon, Frank Mills, Philip Nicholson, Ralph Sexton, Reginald Sprague, James Sutherland, Eric Whetton

Slaves

Claire Booth, Carol Jenkyns, David Jenkyns, Seumas McClenahan, Elizabeth Tabraham

Police

Atherton Riley, Anthony Mardorf

Solo dancer

Desiree Burton

Producer

Matthew Culley

Musical director

Lee Skillman

Deputy musical director

Peter Jenkyns

Dances arranged by

Mary Stuart

Stage manager

Derrick Challis

Prompter

Beryl Walters

Make up

C. A. W. Holmes

Rehearsal pianists

Elsie Lavers, Roger Cove-Crump

House manager

Deryck Tabraham

Electrician

Dennis Mirams

Scenery

Stage Scenery Limited

Wardrobe mistress

Mrs. C. Mardorf

Costumes by

Charles J. Fox, Limited

Publicity manager

Alwyn Covey-Crump

Programmes & stewards

Kit Cockle

Flowers & floral equipment

Mrs. I. Peach

Violins

Sydney Rumbelow, Carol Hart, Peter Boyle, Joyce Covey-Crump, Osmond Cowlishaw, Winifred Bryant

Viola

Kenneth Sheed

Celli

Grace Coles, Barbara Hart

Double bass

Wray Nunn

Woodwind

Vera Brunskill, Petrena Soul, Roland Booth, Anthony Aspden, David Hinton, Bryan Hollis, Nicholas Reader

Trumpets

John Barnes

Trombone

George Allen, Alfred Furness

Horns

Cyril Taylor, Clement Peters

Timpani

John Tournay, Oliver Hinton

 

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