Title: Giselle/Peter and the Wolf
Date: Saturday 7th June 1947, Matinee & Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Ballet Rambert
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Adolphe Adam (Giselle), Sergei Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf)
Choreographer: Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle), Frank Staff (Peter and the Wolf)
Production: 1946 Ballet Rambert production (Giselle), Original 1940 production (Peter and the Wolf)
Conductor: Arthur Oldham
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1

Cast

Giselle

Giselle: Sally Gilmour
Albrecht: Walter Gore
Hilarion: Harry Cordwell
Wilfred: Stanley Newby
The Prince: Vladimir Kalichevsky
Berthe: Eileen Ward
Bathilde: Brenda Hamlyn
Peasant Pas de Deux Soloists: Annette Chappell, John Gilpin
Giselle’s Friends: Margaret Scott, Paula Hinton, Sara Luzita, Brenda Wright, Sylvia Briar, Maria Wellesley, Enid Owen, Barbara Grimes, Pamela Vincent, Margaret Hill, Pearl Gaden, Josephine Leigh, Fay Hammond, Pamela Harford, Maureen Reed, Jane Worth, Beryl Ostlere, Joanne Nisbet
Huntsmen and Court Ladies: David Ellis, Laurence Johnstone, Ronald Hynd, Loveday Hosking, Karin Lewehaupt, Barbara Wynn
Myrtha: Joyce Graeme
Zulme: Margaret Scott
Moyne: Brenda Hamlyn
Wilis: Brenda Wright, Barbara Grimes, Paula Hinton, Annette Chappell, Sylvia Briar, Sara Luzita, Pamela Vincent, Maria Wellesley, Enid Owen, Margaret Hill, Pearl Gaden, Josephine Leigh, Fay Hammond, Pamela Harford, Jane Worth, Maureen Reed, Beryl Ostlere

Peter and the Wolf

Peter: Lulu Dukes
Bird: Annette Chappell
Duck: Paula Hinton (Matinee), Sara Luzita (Evening)
Cat: Margaret Scott
Grandfather: David Ellos
Wolf: Stanley Newby
Huntsman: Frank Staff
The Hunters: Joyce Graeme, Barbara Grimes, Maria Wellesley

Narration: Walter Gore

Crew

For the Double Bill

Scenery and Costumes, Giselle: Hugh Stevenson
Scenery and Costumes, Peter and the Wolf: Guy Sheppard

For Ballet Rambert

Director: Marie Rambert
Manager: John Dowey
Assistant Manager: Joan Walkeden
Musical Director: Arthur Oldham
Orchestra Leader: Harold Fairhurst
Stage Director: Michael Davidson
Stage Manager: Mary Verney
Assistant Stage Manager: Robert Cooper
Wardrobe Mistress: May Mellor
Assistant Wardrobe Mistress: M.C. Boynton
Stage Carpenter: Charles Mitchell
Pianists: Majorie Reed, John Lindsay
Press Representative: Erica Bowen

For the Sadler’s Wells Theatre

General Manager and Licensee: George Chamberlain
Manager: Bruce Worsley

Notes

Mademoiselle Nesbit is listed as one of Giselle’s friends. I have taken this to be a misspelling of Nisbet, indicating Joanne Nisbet, as the Ballet Rambert’s online archive has no mention of a Nesbit.