Title: Grab Me a Gondola
Date: December 1957
Type: Musical
Location: Lyric Theatre, London, England
Music: James Gilbert
Lyrics: Julian More
Book: James Gilbert and Julian More
Production: Original West End Production
Collection Folder: Folder 10B

Cast

Virginia Jones, a Film Star: Joyce Blair
Tom Wilson, a Columnist: Dennis Quilley
Margaret Kyle, his fiancée: Sally Bazely
Prince Luigi Bourbon Corielli: Guido Lorraine
Alex Bryan, Virginia’s Manager: Donald Hewlett
Lt.-Commander Fitzmorris, R.N.: Johnny Ladd
Tino, Proprietor of the Pensione Tino: Trefor Jones
Giuseppina, his wife: Ina de la Haye
Herring, a bo’sun: Jay Denyer
Marcia Grey, a starlet: Sara Luzita

Starlets: Jane Dore, Frances Pidgeon, Mary Preston, Una Stubbs
Pressmen, Managers, Sailors etc.: Peter Brett, John Griffin, Roy Jameson, Tom Shaw, Terence Theobald, Lorna Wood, Gordon Wales

Crew

For Grab Me a Gondola

Producers: Donald Albery for Donmar Productions Ltd., Neil Crawford for Strand Productions Ltd.
Director: Eleanor Fazan
Set Design: Hal Henshaw, Stanley Moore

Orchestrations: Tony Fones Snr., Toney Fones Jr., Alan Yates, Ronnie O’Dell
Vocal Arrangements: Peter Scott Bentley, Stanley Myers
Staging: John Counsell
Musical Director: Alan Abbott

For Donmar Productions Ltd. & Stand Productions Ltd.

Company Manager: Anthony Peek
Stage Management: Colin Leslie, Alice Lidderdale
Press Representative: Ian Purvis

For the Lyric Theatre

Licensee: Prince Littler
Management: Prince Littler, Gilbert Miller
General Manager: Frederick Carter
Manager: F.W. Bradshaw
Box Office Manager: C.J. Roberts

Programme Printed By: Finsbury Press, London

Notes

Production opened at theatre December 1956. Specific date estimated from printing date of programme.