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6th April 1964 to 11th April 1964 |
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The Show | Dramatis personę | The Production Team | The Orchestra |
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Otherwise known as "The Merryman and his Maid". For the detailed synopsis click here. |
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Sir Richard Cholomondley, Lieutenant of the Tower |
Frank Powis |
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Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death |
David Wilson |
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| Sergeant Meryll, of the Yeoman of the Guard |
John Newell |
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| Leonard Meryll, his son |
John Crossfield |
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| Jack Point, a strolling jester |
David Berridge |
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| Wilfred Shadbolt, Head Jailer & Assistant Tormentor |
Stuart Harding |
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| The Headsman |
Norman Fennell |
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| First Yeoman |
Philip Byers |
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| Second Yeoman |
Robert Ladkin |
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| Citizens |
Reginald Sprague, Eric Whetton |
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Elsie Maynard, a strolling singer |
Margaret Ladkin |
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| Phoebe Meryll, Sergeant Meryll's daughter |
Valerie Bowen |
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| Dame Carruthers, Housekeeper to the Tower |
Vera Shelford |
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| Kate, her niece |
Jacqueline Robinson |
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| Chorus of citizens |
Desiree Barton, Joanna Booth, Iris Briggs, Betty Burnett, Jeanne Cavill, Eileen Coates, Elizabeth Eames, Joan Foster, Valerie Houghton, Eileen Jarvis, Doreen Lankester, Anne Metcalf, Mary Myers, Dorothy Tabraham, Elizabeth Tabraham, Doris Thomson, Joyce Webb |
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| Chorus of Yeoman of the Guard, Gentlemen, citizens, etc |
Frank Ashton, John Bain, Christopher Beber, John Crossfield, Norman Fennell, Kenneth Howkins, Alan Lawrence, Seumas McClenahan, David Mann, Frank Mills, Albert Nixon, Geoffrey Oakshott, Frederick Paisley, James Sutherland |
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Producer |
Matthew Culley |
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Musical director |
Peter Jenkyns |
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| Rehearsal pianists |
Lee Skillman, Elsie Lavers |
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| Stage manager |
Derrick Challis |
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| Wardrobe mistress |
Mrs. C. Mardorf |
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| House manager |
Deryck Tabraham |
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| Publicity manager |
Alwyn Covey-Crump |
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| Prompt |
Janet Wickham |
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| Programmes & stewards |
Nancy Booth |
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| Make up |
C. A. W. Holmes |
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| Scenery |
Stage Scenery Limited |
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| Floral decorations |
Mrs. I. Peach |
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| Ticket secretary |
John Gray |
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| Costumes |
B. J. Simmons & Co. (1941) Limited |
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Violins |
W. A. Steer, Jessie Abson, Alfred Alcock, David Amon, Hilary Belcher, Peter Boyle, Joyce Covey-Crump |
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Violas |
Christine Brinklow, Robert Lindsay, Kenneth Sheed |
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Celli |
Roy Abrams, Frances Abrams, Grace Coles |
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| Double bass |
William Mitchell |
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| Woodwind |
Colin Beak, Vera Brunskill, Roland Booth, Catherine Cullen, Richard Fletcher, A. F. Shearer, Bryan Summerfield |
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| Horns |
Cyril Taylor, Clement Peters |
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Trumpets |
John Barnes, Neil Palmer |
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| Trombones |
George Allen, Alfred Furness, David Gentle |
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| Timpani |
John Tournay |
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