Title: Les Patineurs/Symphonic Variations/Adam Zero
Date: Wednesday 24th April 1946, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer (Les Patineurs), César Franck (Symphonic Variations), Arthur Bliss (Adam Zero)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Patineurs, Symphonic Variations), Robert Helpmann (Adam Zero)
Production: Original 1937 production (Les Patineurs), World Premiere Date (Symphonic Variations), Original 1946 production (Adam Zero)
Conductor: Constant Lambert
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Les Patineurs

Entrée: Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre
Pas-de-huit: Jill Gregory, Margaret Roseby, Oenone Tabolt, Margaret Sear, Anthony Burke, Franklin White, Norman Thomson, Kenneth Melville
Variation: Harold Turner
Pas-de-deux: Julia Farron, David Paltenghi
Ensemble: Beryl Grey, Gillian Lynne, Harold Turner, Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre, Jill Gregory, Margaret Roseby, Oenone Tabolt, Margaret Sear, Anthony Burke, Franklin White, Norman Thomson, Kenneth Melville
Pas-de-trois: Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre, Harold Turner
Pas-des-Patineuses: Beryl Grey, Gillian Lynne
Ensemble: Beryl Grey, Gillian Lynne, Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre, Anthony Burke, Franklin White, Norman Thomson, Kenneth Melville
Finale: Ensemble

Symphonic Variations

Dancers: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Pamela May, Brian Shaw, Moira Shearer, Henry Danton

Solo Pianist: Angus Morrison

Adam Zero

The Stage Director: David Paltenghi
The Choreographer (Creator and Destroyer): June Brae
The Principal Dancer (Adam Zero): Robert Helpmann
The Designer (His Fate): Jean Bedells
The Wardrobe Mistress (His Fate): Julia Farron
The Dresser (His Fate): Palma Nye
The Ballerina (His First Love, Wife and Mistress): June Brae
The Understudies (His Son and Daughter): Alexis Rassine, Gillian Lynne
The Character Dancers (His Cat and Dog): Pauline Clayden, Gordon Hamilton
The Mime (His Spiritual Advisor): Leslie Edwards
The Company: Dancers of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Costumes and Decor, Les Patineurs: William Chappell
Music Orchestrator and Arranger, Les Patineurs: Constant Lambert
Scenery Painting, Les Patineurs, Symphonic Variations: Edward Delaney
Décor and Costumes, Symphonic Variations: Sophie Fedorovitch
Costume Executor, Symphonic Variations: Olivia Cranmer
Headdress Executor, Symphonic Variations: Hugh Skillen
Scenery and Costumes, Adam Zero: Roger Furse
Scenery Painting, Adam Zero: Alick Johnstone

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Musical Director: Constant Lambert
Company Manager and Stage Director: Harold Arneil
Ballet Mistress: Joy Newton
Accompanist: Edna Downing
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Jean Bedells

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Production Manager: Reece Pemberton
Stage Manager: Henry Robinson
Assistant Stage Managers: Herbert Hughes, Louis Yudkin
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Electrician: Sydney T. Cheney
Box Office Manager: A.M. Wolstenholme

Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Conductors: Constant Lambert, Geoffrey Corbett

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