8th May 1979 to 12th May 1979

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

A tale of Romanies, Hungarians, Turkish invasions, love, war, dashing hussars, greed, treachery, disgrace, victory, and the music of Johann Strauss.

Saffi

Margaret Johnstone

Czipra

Josephine Jenkin

Barinkay

John Heath

Zsupan

Michael James

Arletta

Pauline Kensett

Mirabella

Evelyn Whinney

Kareska

Brian McDowell

Homonoy

Frank Powis

Otto

David Berridge

Franzi

Monica Squire

Vanya

Rosemary Harratt

Mishka

John Taylor

Pali

Bill Whittuck

Captain of Hussars

Philip Gilmore

Dancers

Lesley Addington, Eve Davies, Alison Green, Natasha Cullingford, Catriona Provan, Marilyn Warminger, Pierrick Razer

Gipsies, villagers, soldiers, etc

Lesley Addington, Hilary Chapman, Eileen Coates, Eve Davies, Elizabeth Ellis, Elizabeth Galley, Audrey Gibson, Audrey Gordon, Julie Green, Penny Handford, Carol Horne, Valerie Houghton, Helen Hughes, Pamela Kell, Barbara Landman, Dawn Messer, Mary Myers, Jo Pearce, Elaine Piesse, Roma Prior, Janet Scott, Deborah Shenley, Vivienne Simpson, May Teague, Beth Walker, Mary Warminger, Jean Wingfield

Alan Archer, Mike Chapman, Roy Craske, Vic Dutton, Len Evans, Mike Galloway, Ray Gould, Arthur Harris, Ken Howkins, Dick Marshall-Hardy, Alan Massey, James Parkinson, David Parry, Don Scott, Robert Turnbull

Producer

William Bowen

Musical director

Giles Turner

Choreographer

Rosemary Ollis

Stage manager

Ken Warminger

Assistant stage manager

John Whinney

Lighting

Julian Duggan

Stage crew

Alan & Malcolm Baker, John & Matthew Briggs, Stephen Geroe, John Heathcoate, John Kensett, Don James

Production assistant

Valerie Bowen

Scenery, constructed by

The Stage Productions Co. Limited

Wardrobe

Mary Myers, Barbara Bostock, Audrey Taylor, Sue Stewart, Margaret Baker

Costumes & wigs

W. A. Homburg Limited

Properties

Lesley Duggan, Catherine Radcliffe, Jean Ingrey-Senn, Beryl James

Tankards kindly lent by

Tudor Tavern

Make up

Arthur & Anne 

Business manager

Mike Galloway

Production secretary

Jo Merrett

Publicity manager

Tony Atkinson

Ticket secretary

Helen Davies

Transport

Mike Chapman, St Albans Van Hire

Front of House

Tony Gordon

Box office

Stan Owen

Rehearsal accompanist

Clive Sear, Anita Cobett, Gillian Beuttler

Stewards & programmes

Jeannie Owen

Call "Boy"

Phyllida Whinney

Prompters

Sheila Turnbull, Gillian Terry

Violins

Brenda Potts, Rachael Burdon, Peter Boyle, Gwen Johnston, Fiona Jones, Freda Pratt, Frances Rotchell, Neil Symmonds, Jenny Wigram, 

Viola

Ania Leadbetter, Margaret Whitling

Celli

Miriam Alcock, Wendy Fulford

Double bass

David Milstead, Wray Nunn

Woodwind

Virginia Burdon-Cooper, Marion Connah, Eileen Davies, Gillian Johnstone, Jacqueline Wood

Trombone

Christopher Lawrence, Brian Williams

Trumpet

Michael Cannon, Graham Weekes

Horn

Uwe Radok

Percussion

Lindsay Barber

 

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