Title: For Love or Money/Capriccio Espagnol/Gaîté Parisienne
Date: Saturday 4th August 1951, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: International Ballet
Location: Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Composer: Gilbert Vinter (For Love or Money), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Capriccio Espagnol), Jacques Offenbach (Gaïté Parisienne)
Choreographer: Harcourt Algeranoff (For Love or Money) Léonide Massine (Capriccio Espagnol, Gaîté Parisienne)
Production: Original 1951 production (For Love or Money), 1951 International Ballet productions (Capriccio Espagnol, Gaîté Parisienne)
Conductor: James Walker (For Love or Money, Gaîté Parisienne), Anthony Baines (Capriccio Espagnol)
Collection Folder: Folder 32

Cast

For Love or Money

Two Fiddlers: Cyril Johns, Vladimir Kalishevsky
Duchess, a Dancing Bear: Gordon Bellingham
Bear Trainer: Bridget Kelly
Gypsy Girl: Jeane Lusby
Queen of the Gypsies: Helene Arnfelt
Rudolf, a young soldier: Jurek Shablevski
Ana: Claudie Algeranova
Istvan: Anthony Wallace
Balthazar: John Healy
Ottilia: Ernest Hewitt
Willibald: Henry Haythorne
Notary: Harvey Bromfield
Bridesmaids: Ena Baguley, Veronica Flint
Groomsmen: Ronald Emblem, Luis Nieto
Russian Plyasoon: Harcourt Algeranoff
Gypsies: Joyce Gearing, Myra Kidd, Thelma CLifford, Beatrice Gordon, Suzanne Lewis, Ochita, Marion Stephens, Sophia Trant, Wladimir Brosko, Roy Evans, Charles Ley, David Lusby
Bower of the Fata Morgana: Ninette Gold, Nita Howard, Gillian Low, Dorothy Walker
Spring of the Fata Morgana: Christine Roberts
Willibald in the form of a Satyr: David Lusby
Revellers: Robert Blake, Malcolm Hughes, Donald Kingston, Yat Malmgren
Phantom Brides: Sheila Cairne, Margaret Drew, Jeanette Minty, Doreen Smith

Capriccio Espagnol

Peasant Girls: Joyce Gearing, Jeanette Minty, Sophia Trant, Judith Kerr, Sheila Cairne, Jillian Poole, Gillian Low, Geraldine Lancaster, Marion Stephens, Audrey Savery, Suzanne Lewis, Doreen Smith
Peasant Boys: Charles Ley, David Lusby, John Healy, Yat Malmgren, Cyril Johns, Roy Evans, Gordon Bellingham, Ronald Emblem, Harvey Bromfield
Majas: Myra Kidd, Bridget Kelly, Dorothy Walker, Beatrice Gordon, Tessa Sollom, June Summers
Majos: Ernest Hewitt, Errol Addison, Vladimir Kalishevsky, Malcolm Hughes, Robert Blake, Wladimir Brosko
Gypsy Woman: Ochita
Gypsy: Luis Nieto
Jota Dancers: Claudie Algeranova, Denys Palmer

Gaîte Parisienne

Glove Seller: Mona Inglesby
Flower Girl: Claudie Algeranova
La Lionne: Myra Kidd
Her Friend: Bridget Kelly
The Peruvian: Jurek Shabelevski
The Baron: Ernest Hewitt
Tortoni: Harcourt Algeranoff
Master of Ceremonies: Harcourt Algeranoff
The Duke: Robert Blake
The Officer: Denys Palmer
Billiard Players: Vladimir Kalishevsky, Wladimir Brosko, David Lusby
Girl Attendants, Waiter, Cocodettes, Soldiers, Dandies, Can-Can Girls: Company

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Costumes, For Love or Money: John Bainbridge
Scenery, For Love or Money: Denis Wreford
Decor and Costumes, Capriccio Espagnol: Mariano Andreu
Scenery Executor, Gaîté Parisienne: John Bainbridge
Scenery Devisor, Gaîté Parisienne: Denis Wreford
Staging, Gaîté Parisienne: Léonide Massine

For the International Ballet

Director: Mona Inglesby
Manager: E. Fleetwood
Lighting and Technical Director: William Lorraine
Stage Director: Guy Bloomer
Stage Manager: Dennis Maunder
Regisseur: Ernest Hewitt
Ballet Tuition: Geoffrey Espinosa
Character Classes: Harcourt Algeranoff
Press Representative: Torrington Douglas

Programme Printed By: Vail & Co. Ltd.

Notes

Claudie Algeranova’s name is misspelt Algernova in the For Love or Money Cast List.

Synopsis: For Love or Money

Scene I- A Gypsy Camp

Rudolf, a young solder, is on his way to marry his sweetheart, Ana. He comes to a Gypsy camp and asks for refreshment. The Queen of the Gypsies tells his fortune in a crystal, and warns him that Balthazar, Ana’s Father, has arranged her marriage to Willibald, the stupid son of Ottilia, a rich widow. She advises Rudolf to go with all speed in he would avert the catastrophe, and adds that she and her subjects will follow, and aid him in need be.

Scene II- The Plain

Hastening on his journey Rudolf is misled by the mirage called Fata Morgana, which first appears as a spring in a bower of trees, then as a Satyr, resembling Willibald, leading a horde of revellers who mock the thirsty traveller with illusory wine. For a moment he believes he sees Ana coming towards him, surrounded by rich brides counselling her to marry for money. She drinks from the Satyr’s cup and dances with the revellers, then Willibald appears and carries her off, and the shades of the Fata Morgana disappear. Rudolf falls exhausted. In the village the waiting Ana grows apprehensive, and sends their friend Istvan to search for Rudolf. Istvan finds Rudolf and sends for help. The Gypsies respond. Rudolf is revived and they all hurry on their way to rescue Ana from the unhappy fate of marrying a man she does not love.

Scene III- The Village

The lovers are reunited and flee together to the Gypsy camp. As they pass Ottilia’s house they disturb the stupid Willibard, who comes out to see what is going on, but the Gypsies gag and kidnap him before he can give the alarm. Soon the Bridesmaids and Groomsmen come to prepare Ana and Willibard for the wedding, and their disappearance is discovered. Their frantic parents search high and low, until Ottilia spots a Gypsy lurking in the village, and, immediately concluding that the Gypsies are the cause of the trouble, leads a search party in the director of the Gypsy camp.

Scene IV- A Gypsy Camp

Meanwhile the lovers have found sanctuary with the Gypsies, whose Queen conceives the idea of marrying Willibard to the idle Bear Trainer, who longs for a rich husband. She persuades Willibard that it is a Gypsy custom to blindfold the Bridegroom at a wedding, and then places him next to the Bear Trainer. The double wedding takes place (the one for love, and the other for money). The search party approaches, but the parents arrive too late, the ceremony is over. The Queen of the Gypsies prevails on the parents to tale the unexpected turn of events with good grace, and the wedding festivities proceed. The Russian Plyasoon hired by Ottilia arrives to dance for the guests, and finally the Gypsy Queen invites everybody to dance and celebrate the wedding.