Dawn Sutton in 'Five Rückert Songs' Photograph by Alan Crumlish
 
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Works of Peter Darrell - 1961

Sound Barrier

13th November 1960, Sunday Ballet Club Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

A ballet about communications, social misfits and an eventual break-through -for the wrong reason.

COMPOSER: Peter Rugolo
DESIGNER: Barry Kay
CASTING: Chesterina Sim Zecha, George Minami

A Wish for Jamie (Pantomime)

9th December 1960, Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow

DEVISED AND DIRECTED BY Freddie Carpenter

BOOK, ADDITIONAL MUSIC AND LYRICS: John Law
DESIGNER: Berkeley Sutcliffe
MUSICAL NUMBERS ARRANGED BY Peter Darrell
CASTING: Clement Ashby, Mary Benning, Rikki Fulton, Russell Hunter, Fay Lenore, Doris McClure, Kenneth McKellar, Paul & Peta Page, Ethel Scott, Reg Varney, The George Mitchell Singers, The Geraldo Orchestra and dancers of Western Theatre Ballet

Ode

15th May 1961, Western Theatre Ballet Civic Theatre, Rotherham

Based on the idea of contrasting ways of life and the inner conflict involved in a choice between them.

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky
DESIGNER: Pauline Whitehouse
CASTING: David Hepburn, Brenda Last, Max Natiez, Oliver Symons, Sylvia Wellman

Five-past-Eight of 1961 (Revue)

17th May 1961, Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow

DEVISED AND PRODUCED BY Dick Hurran
DECOR: Tod Kingman
COSTUMES: Floc
MUSICAL NUMBERS ARRANGED BY: Peter Darrell
CASTING: John Adams, Eve Boswell, Roy Boutcher, Irene Claire, Brian Jones, Jimmy Logan, Una McLean, John Mulvaney, Helen Norman, Jack Radcliffe, The Bluebell Girls, The Four Fellers and The George Mitchell Singers and the Geraldo Orchestra under the direction of Michael Steyn

Salade

4th September 1961, Western Theatre Ballet Empire Theatre, Edinburgh

Part of a Triple Bill (together with Le Renard and Seven Deadly Sins) commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival.

COMPOSER: Darius Milhaud
DESIGNER: Barry Kay
TEXT: Albert Flament, translated by Rollo H. Meyer
CASTING: Peter Cazalet, Gail Donaldson, Dennis Griffith, Yvonne Joseph, Brenda Last, Victor Maynard, Hazel Merry, Laverne Meyer, Gilda Proudley, Erling Sunde, Oliver Symons, Sylvia Wellman.

Aladdin (Pantomime)

December 1961, Empire Theatre, Glasgow

For this production Peter Darrell devised and produced the Vision of the Highlands Ballet.

MUSIC AND LYRICS: Cole Porter
DESIGNER: Loudon Sainthill
CHOREOGRAPHY: Robert Helpmann
BOOK BY: John Law
DIRECTOR: Eleanor Fazan
CASTING: Johnny Beattie, Jessie Carron, William Dickie, Gerald Fallon, Jimmy Fletcher, Claire Francis, David Henderson-Tate, Soo-Bee Lee, Duncan Macrae, Eric V. Marsh, Brian Moorehead, Mark Wynter
DANCERS: Anne Heaton with Gail Donaldson, Dennis Griffith, Yvonne Joseph, Brenda Last, Victor Maynard, Laverne Meyer, Max Natiez, Gilda Proudley, Clover Roope, Erling Sunde, Sylvia Wellman, Brian Willis