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23rd April 1996 to 27th April 1996 |
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The Show | Dramatis personę | The Production Team | The Orchestra |
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Tourists flock to Hadwell Hall, a Stately house, where Lady Hadwell, an ex-chorus girl who married into a title, shows them around assisted by her daughters Lady Penelope and Lady Fiona - her third daughter Lady Charlotte (nicknamed Charlie) is usually too smothered in grease from tinkering with her motor-bikes to help with the tourists! Kay Connor, a colleague of Lady Hadwell from her dancing days, and now an oil-rich American widow, is looking to marry her playboy son, Jack, into English respectability, and where better to start looking than at the three girls at Hadwell Hall! Charlie ridicules her sisters' fascination with love, and sings that one day 'bells will ring' when she finds her ideal man - meantime, motor-bikes are more dependable! Wainwright, heir to a football pools firm, arrives at the Hall with a record breaking cheque for Joe, Lady Hadwell's general factotum. Desperately wanting to tell Charlie of his love for her, Joe asks Wainwright if publicity of the win can be held up for a week to give him one last chance to get those magic words out before she hears of his good fortune. Smitten with love for Lady Fiona, Wainwright is happy to agree and stays on disguised as the butler. Joe's dream receives a setback when Charlie, lifting her eyes from the motor-bikes, falls in love at first sight of Jack! But even with the romance of the ball her mother organises for her visitors, Charlie, despite 'love at first sight', finds the bells she has promised herself just do not ring when Jack kisses her. Not knowing this, and in despair, Joe has packed his bags to leave Hadwell Hall. Before doing so he asks permission to kiss Charlie goodbye - and that is when the 'BELLS REALLY DO RING'! |
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Lady Hadwell, widowed owner of Hadwell Hall |
Susan Brodie |
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Lady Charlotte, known as Charlie |
Xanthe Johnstone |
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| Lady Fiona |
Carla Tams |
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Lady Penelope |
Clare Pettet |
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Joe Studholme, Lady Hadwell's general factotum |
Robert Milner |
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Nicholas Wainwright, a representative of Littlehills Football Pools |
Peter Jones |
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Mrs. Kay Conner, an oil heiress and friend of Lady Hadwell |
Jane Forster |
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Jack Connor, her son |
John Dell |
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John Sasaki, Jack's Japanese valet |
scott Lear |
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| Frederica, | Employees of Lady Hadwell, under Joe |
Julia Smith |
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| Samantha |
Caroline Arthur |
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| Jerry |
David Barker |
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| Pete |
Peter Barker |
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| Two suspicion characters |
Arthur Harris, Tug Wilson |
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| Tourists and guests at Hadwell Hall |
Andrea Baron, Jane Byrne, Clare Basinger, Jean Cavill, Hilary Chapman, Mike Chapman, Jane Clark, Helen Davies, Stella Eastwood, Len Evans, Jane Farrar, David Fletcher, Marion Hammond, Jacquie Hick, Emma Hill, Gill Knifton, Craig Lear, Julie Martin, Clare McMillan, David Mills, Karen Northcott, Jim Parkinson, Andrea Straus, John Taylor, Caroline Thomas, Peter Thompson, Karen Thorp, Beth Walker, Carolyn Walker, Tammy Wall, Jane Watkinson, Joanne Pearce-Westrop, Bill Whittuck, Peter Wright, Lisa Young |
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| School children, from St John Fisher School, Marshalswick |
Kelly Hubball, Emma Kiley, Gemma Lally, Camilla Nash, Laura Owens, Chloe Read |
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Production, direction & choreography |
Martyn Knight |
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Musical director |
Stuart Harding |
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Stage manager |
Barry Sawyer |
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Deputy stage manager |
James Shipp |
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| Sound |
Tony Ayre |
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Lighting |
Dave Mead |
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Stage crew |
Pete Adkins, Alan Baker, Jeff Bates, John Briggs, Peter Martin-Flavin, Iain Galley, Malcolm Harris, Dan Heath, Mark Hornby, Colin Wells, Mark Williams |
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| Scenery |
Clifford & Brown, Stage scenery contractors |
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| Property master |
Tom Quinn |
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| Assisted by |
Leslie Addington, Doreen Gray, Philip Lober, Clive Webb |
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| Properties & furniture supplied by |
Phoenix Hire, Keeleys, Abbey Theatre, and Members of the Society |
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| Motor-cycle |
New Classic Motors, Elstree |
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Wardrobe co-ordinator |
Mary Myers |
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| Wardrobe mistress |
Jean Halsey |
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| Assisted by |
Margaret Baker, Janet Biggs, Barbara Bostock, Marjorie Ingram, Elaine Stapley, Audrey Taylor |
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Costumes |
Northern Costume Hire, Leeds |
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| Wigs |
Derek Easton |
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| Make up |
Eileen Coates, Jane Smith, Dorothy Whittuck |
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| Hairstyling |
Roots of George Street |
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| Rehearsal accompanists |
Clive Sear, Peter Jenkin, Njal Stirling Buick |
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Production manager |
Don Scott |
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| Production secretary |
Alison Belding |
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| Publicity coordinator |
Len Evans |
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| Ticket secretary |
Pam Kell |
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| Producer's assistant |
Eve Davies |
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| Prompts |
Lesley Duggan, Janet Eaton |
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| Front of House manager |
Stan Owen |
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| Front of house decoration |
Devised, created & built by Mary Myers, Len Evans, & John Briggs |
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| Stewards / Programme sales |
Jeanie Owen |
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Transport |
David Mills |
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| Production refreshments |
Dorothy Tabraham, Marjorie Parkinson, Janet Biggs, Jack Payton |
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| Photography |
Michael Readman |
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| Printing |
TicketExpress, Reading |
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| Champagne |
Veuve Clicquot - Champagne for the Theatre Season |
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| Champagne bucket & stand |
Kindly loaned by Giovannis |
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| Flowers |
Jane Louise |
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Front cover of programme |
Reproduced by kind permission of Cassio Operatic Society |
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Violins |
Geoffrey Barker, Jennifer Wigram |
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| Viola |
Tony Wigram |
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| Cello |
Rosemary Leak |
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| Piano |
Clive Sear |
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Trumpets |
Lucy Campbell, Leon Warner, Garry Manning |
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Trombones |
Adrian Jarvis, Richard Tuberville |
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| Guitar |
Colin Mold |
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| Bass guitar |
Gareth Covey-Crump |
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| Kit |
Wallace Ruby |
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Woodwind |
Lucy Campbell, Garry Manning, Leon Warner |
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Percussion |
Richard Tait |
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