23rd October 1972 to 28th October 1972

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

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Quaker Girl is set in an English village and Paris, sometime in the 19th century.  It is an excellent example of that highly proper and polite form of entertainment known as musical comedy - a form that emerged from Victorian burlesque and music hall.

Jarge, village crier & church clerk

Frank Mills

Mrs. Lukyn, landlady of "The Chequers Inn"

Audrey Gordon

William, waiter at "The Chequers Inn"

Kenneth Howkins

Nathaniel Pym, a Quaker

Keith Eaton

Rachel, his sister

Evelyn Whinney

Phoebe, an English maid to princess Mathilde

Pauline Kensett

Captain Charteris, a King's Messenger

William Bowen

Princess Mathilde, an exile Bonapartist

Jocelyn Marsh

Madam Blum, proprietress of "La Maison Blum", Paris

Pamela Kell

Tony Chute, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Paris

David Berridge

Jeremiah, a Quaker, servant to Nathaniel

Don Scott

Prudence Pym, a Quaker girl, niece of Nathaniel

Elizabeth Reeves

Toinette, head fitter at "La Maison Blum"

Susan Cleverly

Monsieur Larose, Parisian Chief of Police

Derrick Pope

Diane, a Parisian actress

Mary Myers

Prince Carlo, affianced to Princess Mathilde

John Heath

Monsieur Duhamel, a Minister of State

Roy Craske

Principal dancers

Marilyn Dixon

Gendarme

Philip Gilmore

Villagers, quakers, works girls, guests etc

Pat Baikie, Muriel Boddy, Iris Briggs, Susan Cleverly, Janet Eaton, Joan Foster, Audrey Gordon, Carol Horne, Eileen Jarvis, Mary Myers, Elaine Piesse, Janet Scott, Sheila Stewart, Dorothy Tabraham, May Teague, Evelyn Whinney

Roy Craske, Keith Eaton, Alan Harris, John Heath, Ken Howkins, Alan Massey, FRank Mills, James Parkinson, Derrick Pope, John Simpson, William Whittuck

Producer

David Berridge

Musical director

Lee Skillman

Choreographer

Marilyn Dixon

Society stage manager

Derrick Challis

Production stage manager

Peter Boddy

Assistant stage manager

John Merrett

Lighting

Julian Duggan

Set design

Derrick Challis

Scenery, constructed by

Peter Boddy, John Briggs

Wardrobe mistress

Mary Myers, Janet Eaton

Costumes

A. & C. Mardorf, members of the Society

Property mistresses

Angela How, Jeanne Cavill

Prompter

Peter Norris, Helen Davies

Make up

The Cast

Wigs

Lily Mee

Business manager

Keith Eaton

Ticket secretary

Ken Bunce

Rehearsal accompanist

Isabel, Harvey & Guy Dagul

House manager

Nancy Booth

Flowers by

June Butler

Piano

Isabel & Harvey Dagul

Double bass

Judith Stoddard

Timpani & percussion

John Tournay

 

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