Title: La fille mal gardée
Date: Friday 3rd June 1977, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet
Location: Theatre Royal, Norwich, England
Composer: Ferdinand Hérold
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Production: Revival of Ashton’s 1960 Production for The Royal Ballet
Conductor: Colin Metters
Collection Number: 2401_1977_01

Cast

Widow Simone: Brian Shaw
Lise: Marion Tait
Colas: Carl Myers
Thomas: John Auld
Alain: David Morse
Village Notary: Derek Purnell
Notary’s Clerk: Ian Owen
Cockerel and Hens: Ian Owen, Susan Lucas, Beverly Parker, Sheila Styles, Lynn Wake
Lise’s Friends: Christine Aitken, Susan Burton, Claire Farnsworth, June Highwood, Sherilyn Kennedy, Jeanetta Laurence, Petal Miller, Vicki Powell
Villagers, Harvesters, Grooms, etc.: Artists of the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet

Orchestra

First Violins:
Jack Maguire (Leader)
Melita Bridgehouse
Rebecca Wade
Stephen Kear
Harry Nathan
Howard Walsh
Helen Brown

Second Violins:
Bridget Proctor
June Wilson
Diane Youngman
Elizabeth Spurrell
Geoffrey Hawcutt
Elizabeth Baldey

Violas:
Stephen Gorringe
Rona Smith
Ambrose Miller
Donald O’Neal

Cellos:
Ann Barber
Deborah Johnston
Julie Norman
Janet Derham

Basses:
Duncan Mitchell
Ronald Dunning

Harp:
Sarah Morley

Flutes:
Patrick Williams
Keith Bragg

Oboes:
Paul Arden Taylor
Hugh McKenna

Clarinets:
Tom Whitestone
Malcolm McMillan

Bassoons:
Michael Cole
Anne Bentley

Horns:
Stephen Reading
William Haskins
Christopher Tilbury
Peter Dyson

Trumpets:
Malcolm Woodhouse
David Batstone

Trombones:
Colin Gummer
Maxwell Isley
Malcolm Kinch

Tuba:
Andrew Martin

Timpani:
Stephen Webberley

Percussion:
John Beadle
Polly Whiteley

Crew

For La fille mal gardée

Music Arranger: John Lanchbery
Scenery and Costumes: Osbert Lancaster

For The Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet

Director: Peter Wright
Assistant Director: John Auld
Musical Director: Ashley Lawrence
Company Manager: Christopher Nourse
Company Pianist: Hilary Bell
Rehearsal Pianist: Stephen Lade
Orchestra Manager: Clarissa Melville
Librarian: Malcolm McMillan
Orchestra Porters: Malcolm Kinch, David Batstone
Ballet Master: Ronald Plaisted
Principal Répétiteur: Brenda Last
Company Teacher: Hilary Cartwright
Physiotherapist: Britt Tajet-Foxell
Stage Manager: Terry Martin
Deputy Stage Manager: Donald Scrimgeour
Master Carpenter: John Hart
Chief Electrician: John Hall
Property Master: Graham Crew
Assistant Carpenter: Pat Carroll
Assistant Electrician: Peter Langford
Wardrobe Mistress: Lila Sobieralska
Wardrobe Assistants: Brian Ferguson, Maureen Heatherington, Frances Hobbs, Sue Thompson, John Vieira
Wigmaster: Henry Menary
Press Officer: Janet Judd
Secretary: Alison Palmer

For the Theatre Royal

House Manager: Stanley C. Fuller
General Manager: Dick Condon

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