20th April 1974 to 24th April 1974

The Show | Dramatis personæ | The Production Team | The Orchestra

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Baron Zeta, Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris

Peter Jenkyns

Valencienne, his wife

Pauline Kensett

Camille de Rosillon

David Keith-Jones

Vicomte Cascada

David Berridge

Raoul de St Brioche

Don Scott

Bogdanovitsch, the Pontevediran Consul

Keith Eaton

Sylvia, his wife

Muriel Boddy

Kromov, a Pontevedrian Councillor

William Whittuck

Olga, his wife

Eileen Coates

Pritsch, a Pontevedrian military attaché

Kenneth Howkins

Praskovia, his wife

Evelyn Whinney

Njegus, Baron Zeta's factotum

Derrick Pope

Anna Glavari, the Merry Widow

Valerie Bowen

Count Danilo Danilovitsch, Principal Attaché

Derrick Phoenix

Lolo Grisettes at Maxim's

Jeanne Cavill

Dodo

Elizabeth Tabraham

Jou-Jou

Janet Scott

Frou-Frou

Carol Horne

Clo-Clo

Joanna Merrett

Margot

Mary Myers

Embassy servants

Philip Gillmor, Albert Howkins, Cleveland Jarvis

Dancers

Jane Bickham, Hilary Chisholm, Annabel Day, Marilyn Dixon, Alison Green, Jane Taylor

Members of Parisian & Pontevedrian society

Pat Baikie, Margaret Beach, Iris Briggs, Norma Brymer, Jeanne Cavill, Judith Clarke, Janet Eaton, Joan Foster, Diana Fytche, Audrey Gordon, Joan Hall, Carol Horne, Valerie Houghton, Eileen Jarvis, Pamela Kell, Gwen Kerslake, Joanna Merrett, Joyce Mills, Mary Myers, Helen Parfitt, Elaine Piesse, Roma Prior, Elizabeth Reeves, Janet Scott, Elizabeth Tabraham, Dorothy Tabraham

John Aitken, Arnold Barrow, David Bevan, Jack Coote, Roy Craske, Vic Dutton, Michael Hall, Alan Harris, Terence Jenkins, David John, Ron Liffen, David Marshall, Alan Massey, Frank Mills, Peter Norris, Jim Parkinson, Tim Rowlett, John Simpson, Alan Westmoreland

 

 

Producer

William Bowen

 

Musical director

Sydney Bickham

Choreographer

Rosalie Hollis

 

Stage manager

Derrick Challis

 

Assistant stage manager

Peter Boddy

 

Lighting

Roy Fielden, Ian Burville-Jones

 

Stage crew

Julian Duggan, Harry Foster, Roy Grant, Charles Houghton, Nicholas Taylor, Kelvin Wayman, John Whinney

 

Set designed, constructed and painted by

Derrick Challis, Peter Boddy, John Briggs & members of the Society

 

Wardrobe

June Butler, Mary Myers, Edna Stevens

 

Costumes

William Mutrie and Son Limited, Edinburgh

Rehearsal accompanists

Lee Skillman, Peter Stephenson

 

Properties

Nancy Booth, Mary Phoenix

 

Make-up

Arthur & Anne

 

Producer's secretary

Claire Booth

 

Floral decorations

Rene Peach

 

Prompt

Lynette Bickham

Violins

William Steer,  Alfred Alcock, Anita Beak, Peter Boyle, Joyce Covey-Crump, Kate Goodchild, Gwen Johnstone, Frances Rotchell, Norman Sharp

Viola

Antonia Del Mar, Christine Sheed, Kenneth Sheed

Celli

Pauline Del Mar, Sonia Leadbetter

Bass

Robert Seller

Woodwind

Vera Brunskill, Virginia Burdon-Cooper, Roland Booth, Barbara Thornhill, Edward Lyons, Colin Beak

Harp

Audrey Bayley

Trumpet

John Barnes, Michael Cannon

Trombone

Arthur Hawkes, David Gentle

Horn

Christopher Crawley, Cyril Taylor

Percussion

Lindsey Barber

 

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