Title: Cinderella
Date: Thursday 23rd December 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Production: World Premiere Date
Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Cinderella: Moira Shearer
The Prince: Michael Somes
Cinderella’s Stepsisters: Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann
Cinderella’s Father: Franklin White
The Fairy Godmother: Pamela May

The Fairy Spring: Nadia Nerina
Her Pages: Ann Jomeron, Brenda Averty
The Fairy Summer: Violetta Elvin
Her Pages: Annette Page, Jean Cameron
The Fairy Autumn: Pauline Clayden
Her Pages: Karen Bliss, Jean Slater
The Fairy Winter: Beryl Grey
Her Pages: Doreen Tempest, Wendy Barker

Stars: Rowena Jackson, Rosemary Lindsay, Rosemary Valaire, Paula Dunning, Wendy Winn, Pauline Wadsworth, Margaret Sear, Jill Gregory, Dorothea Zaymes, Christine Du Boulay, Anne Gieves, Fiorella Keane

Act I-
A Tailor: Donald Britton
Dressmakers: Anne Negus, Margaret Dale
The Shoemaker: Paul Reymond
The Hairdresser: Leslie Edwards
A Jeweller: Henry Legerton
The Dancing Master: Harold Turner
Violinists: Kathleen Tierney, Kathleen Sturdy
The Coachman: Robert Lunnon
Lackeys: Rands Trevor, Terence Paul, Ivan Dragadze, Norman MacDowell

Act II-
Suitors of the Stepsisters: Alfred Rodriques, Donald Britton
The Jester: Alexander Grant
The Prince’s Friends: Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Kenneth Melville, Kenneth MacMillan
A Negro: Ronald Kaye
Courtiers: Sheila Nelson, Thekla Russell, Pauline Harrop, Vera Winterton, Judy Laraman, Valerie Taylor, June Laverick, Shirley Bishop, Gilbert Vernon, Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards, Robert Lunnon, Charles Lisner, John Cranko, Henry Legerton, Ronald Plaisted
Guests: Renee Pasby, Ann Moller, Margaret Hare, Rosemary Boniface, Brenda Taylor, Geoffrey Walters, John Grange, Barry Watts

Act III-
Townswomen: Anne Negus, Margaret Dale
The Jester: Alexander Grant
The Dancing Master: Harold Turner
The Hairdresser: Leslie Edwards
The Shoemaker: Paul Reymond
The Jeweller: Henry Legerton
Footmen: Ivan Dragadze, Ronald Plaisted
A Negro: Richard Kaye

Crew

For Cinderella

Costumes and Scenery: Jean-Denis Malclès
Costume Maker: Olivia Cranmer
Headdress Makers: Josef Roth, Anthony Martell
Fabric Dyeing and Painting: Bettina Pacey, Barbara Ternouth
Scenery Building: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting: Clement Glock
Property Making: Jack Lovell, Vic Drummond

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Mary Skeaping
Maître de ballet: Harijs Plucis
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Librarian: R. Temple Savage

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Production Manager: Daphne Cawson
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Assistant Stage Manager: Bruce Corder
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell
Box Office Managers: A.M. Wolstenholme, D. Wilson

Programme Printed By: Finden Brown & Co. Ltd., London