Title: Les Patineurs/Don Juan/La Boutique Fantasque
Date: Thursday 25th November 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer (Les Patineurs), Richard Strauss (Don Juan), Gioachino Rossini (La Boutique Fantasque)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Patineurs, Don Juan), Léonide Massine (La Boutique Fantasque)
Production: Original 1937 production (Les Patineurs), World Premiere Date (Don Juan), 1947 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (La Boutique Fantasque)
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Les Patineurs

Entrée: Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre
Pas-de-Huit: Thekla Russell, Christine Du Boulay, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Kenneth Melville, Gilbert Vernon, Kenneth MacMillan, Franklin White
Variation: Brian Shaw
Pas-de-deux: Beryl Grey, Philip Chatfield
Ensemble: Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Brian Shaw, Avril Navarre, Margaret Dale, Thekla Russell, Christine Du Boulay, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Kenneth Melville, Gilbert Vernon, Kenneth MacMillan, Franklin White
Pas-de-trois: Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre, Brian Shaw
Pas-de-Patineuses: Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford
Ensemble: Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Avril Navarre, Margaret Dale, Kenneth Melville, Gilbert Vernon, Kenneth MacMillan, Franklin White
Finale: Full Ensemble

Don Juan

Don Juan: Robert Helpmann
La Morte Amoureuse: Margot Fonteyn
Her Attendants: Alfred Rodriques, Bryan Ashbridge
A Young Wife: Moira Shearer
Her Husband: Richard Ellis
Amours: Anne Heaton, Gerd Larsen, Julia Farron, Rosemary Lindsay, Nadia Nerina, Gillian Lynne
Rivals: John Field, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield
Carnaval: Thekla Russell, Wendy Winn, Dorothea Zaymes, Sheila Nelson, Rowena Jackson, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Anne Negus, Rosemary Valaire, Christine Du Boulay, Gilbert Vernon, Franklin White, Donald Britton, Henry Legerton, Paul Reymond, Charles Lisner

La Boutique Fantasque

The Shopkeeper: John Hart
His Assistant: Henry Legerton
A Thief: Ivan Dregadze
An English Old Maid: Pauline Wadsworth
Her Friend: Jean Stokes
An American: Leslie Edwards
His Wife: Thekla Russell
Their Son: Tony Tarver
Their Daughter: Margaret Dale
A Russian Merchant: Alfred Rodriques
His Wife: Palma Nye
Their Son: Rands Trevor
Their Four Daughters: Jill Gregory, Margaret Sear, Anne Negus, Sheila Nelson
Two Assistants: Bryan Ashbridge, Kenneth MacMillan

The Dolls-
Two Dolls: Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Gieves
Tarantella Dancers: Julia Farron, Alexander Grant
The Queen of Clubs: June Brae
The Queen of Diamonds: Gillian Lynne
The King of Spades: Philip Chatfield
The King of Hearts: Kenneth Melville
The Snob: Alexis Rassine
The Melon Hawker: Franklin White
A Cossack Girl: Violetta Elvin
A Cossack Chief: Michael Somes
Five Cossacks: Charles Lisner, John Cranko, Gilbert Vernon, Brian Shaw, Robert Lunnon
Dancing Poodles: Pauline Clayden, Donald Britton
Can-Can Dancers: Harold Turner, Pamela May
Their Twelve Friends: Lorna Mossford, Rosemary Lindsay, Avril Navarre, Anne Gieves, Fiorella Keane, Anne Heaton, Christine Du Boulay, Dorothea Zaymes, Paula Dunning, Wendy Winn, Rowena Jackson, Rosemary Valaire

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Orchestration, Les Patineurs: Constant Lambert
Costumes and Decor, Les Patineurs: William Chappell
Scenery Painting, Les Patineurs: Edward Delaney

Costumes and Scenery, Don Juan: Edward Burra
Scenery Building, Don Juan: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting, Don Juan: Clement Glock
Costume Execution, Don Juan: Olivia Cranmer
Fabric Dyeing, Don Juan: Bettina Pacey, Barbara Ternouth
Headdress Making, Don Juan: Josef Roth, Anthony Martell
Property Making, Don Juan: Jack Lovell, Vic Drummond

Orchestration, La Boutique Fantasque: Ottorino Respighi
Curtain, Scenery and Costumes, La Boutique Fantasque: André Derain

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Artistic 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
Box Office Managers: A.M. Wolstenholme, D. Wilson
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

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