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The Land of Smiles (Operetta)
9th July 1959, Sadler's Wells Opera Coliseum Theatre,
London
COMPOSER: Franz Lehár
DESIGNER: Berkeley Sutcliffe
MUSICAL NUMBERS ARRANGED BY: Peter
Darrell
DIRECTOR: Charles Hickman
CASTING: Peter Bayliss, Stanley
Beedle, June Bronhill, Rachel Conway, Charles Craig, Denis Dowling,
Elizabeth Fretwell, Peter Grant, Barbara Howitt, June Johnstone,
Gwilym Jones, Cynthia Morey, Alfred Oldridge, Frederick Sharp,
Suzanne Steele, Deirdre Thurlow and dancers of Sadler's Wells
Opera Ballet
Chiaroscuro
18th November 1959, Western Theatre Ballet Théâtre
de la Monnaie, Brussels;
1963 Royal Winnipeg Ballet
A series of dance impressions of the light and shade in human
behaviour.
COMPOSER: Darius Milhaud (Saudades
do Brasil)
DESIGNER: Barry Kay; Peter Cazalet
(Western Theatre Ballet)
DECOR: Roy Izen (Royal Winnipeg
Ballet)
COSTUMES: Grant Marshall (Royal
Winnipeg Ballet)
CASTING: Dennis Griffith, Anne
Hyde, Brenda Last, Hazel Merry, Laverne Meyer, Richard Morris
Quatre Quartiers
November 1959, Western Theatre Ballet and Béjart Ballet
Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels
A jazz ballet in four parts.
COMPOSER: Willy Albimoor
DESIGNER: Jacques Van Nerom
CASTING: Jeannine Berdel, Jean
de Cock, Francine Cramer, Roland Dimitri, Jeannine Festraet, Nicole
Floris, Anne Hyde, Josiane Janvier, Dolores Laga, Brenda Last,
André Leclair, Mouette Loza, Coletter Ludo, Andrée
Marlière, Liliane Merry, Madeleine Middegaels, Richard
Morris, Arnold Poels, Anna Price, Michèle Rimbold, Paule
Scamp, Jacques Sausin, Cornell Senechal, Jane Simons, Oliver Symons,
Vivianne Varetti, Sylvia Wellman, Jeannine Wisniewsky
Bal de la Victoire
November 1959, Western Theatre Ballet and Béjart Ballet.
Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels;
Filmed for BBC "Music for You", shown 27th
April 1960; 8th May 1960, Western Theatre Ballet. Royal
Court Theatre, London
A Victory Ball circa 1800. Flirtatious encounters by fair maidens
and gallant officers.
COMPOSERS: Friedrich Kuhlau and
Hans Christian Lumbye
DESIGNER: Barry Kay
CASTING: Jean de Cock, Roland Dimitri,
Dennis Griffith, Anne Hyde, Dolores Laga, Brenda Last, Andrée
Marlière, Hazel Merry, Liliane Merry, Laverne Meyer, Richard
Morris, Serge Mrakoff, Suzanne Musitz, Arnold Poels, Anna Price,
Jacques Sausin, Cornell Senechal, Eriing Sunde, Oliver Symons.
Viviane Varetti, Sylvia Wellman
Tannhaüser (Opera)
9th December 1959, Sadler's Wells Opera Sadler's Wells
Theatre, London
The Opera was given in the original Dresden version
COMPOSER: Richard Wagner
DESIGNER: Motley
DIRECTOR: Anthony Besch
CASTING: Harold Blackburn, Marie
Collier, Ronald Dowd, Gwyn Griffiths, Raimund Herincx, Iris Kells,
Joseph Powell, Joan Stuart, Tom Swift, David Ward and dancers
of Western Theatre Ballet
Humpty Dumpty (Pantomime)
December 1959, London Palladium
COMPOSER: Park/Croft/Ornadel
DECOR: Tod Kingman and Edward Delaney
COSTUMES: St John Roper
MUSICAL NUMBERS ARRANGED BY: Peter
Darrell
DIRECTOR: Robert Nesbitt
CASTING: Roy Castle, Hazel Coppen,
Samy Curtis, David Davenport, Jack and Manny Francois, Dave Jackley,
Michael Kilgarriff, Alfred Marks, Gary Miller, Paddy O'Neil, J.
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