24th April 1990 to 28th April 1990

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

Based on the novel "Kipps" by H. G. Wells

Arthur Kipps, an orphan

Grant Burnham

Sid Pornick, a Socialist

Clive Webb

Buggins, a pessimist

Patrick Snowdon

Pearce, a dandy

Roy Byrne

Carshot, head floor-walker

Len Evans

Mr. Shalford, owner of the Emporium

David Burgess

Flo Bates  shop girls

Jean Day

Victoria

Clare Basinger

Kate

Jane Ryan

Emma

Sonya Arden

Mrs. Botting, a customer

Jane Forster

Bella

Herself

Mrs. Walsingham, Helen's mother

Mary Myers

Ann Pornick, Sid's sister

Carla Tams

Helen Walsingham, an enlightened young lady

Jane Farrar

William Walsingham, her brother (a lawyer)

Peter Jones

Harry Chitterlow, an actor-playwright

Barry Sawyer

Laura, a barmaid

Xanthe Johnstone

Photographer

Peter Jones

Reporters

David Berridge, John Taylor

Gwendolin, a parlour-maid

Claire Eaton

Shop-girls, customers, students, towns-people, etc

Alison Belding, Sarah Burbridge, Elizabeth Burgess, Jeanne Cavill, Hilary Chapman, Helen Davies, Sue Denham, Elizabeth Galley, Julie Martin, Noreen Martin, Clare McMillan, Anita Rowlands, Karen Thorpe, Sue Tunnicliff, Beth Walker, Phyllida Whinney

Jim Burgess, Mike Chapman, Luccio Daley, Arthur Harris, Michael Kerr, Dick Marshall-Hardy, David Mills, Jim Parkinson, Tim Richardson, Tug Wilson

Producer & choreographer

Valerie Fardell

Musical director

Neil Buick

Stage manager & technical co-ordinator

Ken Warminger

Assistant stage manager

Nicola Whinney

Sound

Denis Carter, Tony Ayre

Lighting

Mike Bean, Keith Eaton

Stage crew

Alan Baker, John Briggs, John Carrington, Lewis Hicks, Mark Hornby, Tony Leggatt, Chris Male, Philip Orton, Tim Proctor, Leonard Tilbrook, Bill Whittuck

Properties supplied by

Keeleys Theatrical Hire

Properties

Dorothy Whittuck, Alma Bond, Janice Sutton, Marilyn Warminger

Scenery

Stage Productions

Hats

Roy Appleby

Wardrobe co-ordinator

Mary Myers

Wardrobe

Barbara Bostock, Audrey Taylor, Janet Biggs, Janet Eaton, Melanie Taylor

Costumes

Allan Scott Costumes

Make up

Anne Butterworth, Janet Aga, Eileen Coates, Joanna Dunstan

Rehearsal accompanists

Blair Cargill

Business manager

Lesley Duggan

Production secretary

Nicola Whinney

Publicity coordinator

Michael James

Ticket secretary

David Berridge

Prompter

Kate Brown

Front of House manager

Stan Owen

Stewards / Programme sales

Jeanie Owen

Photography

Michael James

Printing

The Furnival Press, London

Flowers

"Mostly Roses"

First violins

Geoffrey Barker, Marion Brister, Susan Greengrass, Nigel Millbank, Jennifer Wigram

Second violins

Garth Covey-Crump, Chris Melchior, Jennifer Purvis, Robert Whale

Violas

Kirsty Millbank, Tony Wigram

Celli

Ginny Davies, Bernice de Smet

Bass

Nigel Benson

Trumpets

Peter Crompton, Tim Welch

Trombones

Paul Barron, Mike Griffiths

Woodwind

Jenny Barker, Penny Manning, Peter Manning, Stephen Greengrass

Percussion

Richard Tait, Arthur Soothill

 

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