Title: Les Rendezvous/The Maids/Concerto Pas de Deux/The Grand Tour
Date: Friday 10th March 1972, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (Royal Ballet Touring Company)
Location: Theatre Royal, Norwich, England
Composer: Daniel Auber (Les Rendezvous), Darius Milhaud (The Maids), Dmitri Shostakovich (Concerto Pas de Deux), Noel Coward (The Grand Tour)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Rendezvous), Herbert Ross (The Maids), Kenneth MacMillan (Concerto Pas de Deux) Joe Layton (The Grand Tour)
Production: Original 1959 production (Les Rendezvous), Lorena Hightower staging for the Royal Ballet Touring Company (The Maids), 1967 Royal Ballet Touring Company production (Concerto Pas de Deux), Original 1971 production (The Grand Tour)
Conductor: Anthony Twiner
Collection Number: 2401_1972_01

Cast

Les Rendezvous

Entree des Promeneurs: Vyvyan Lorrayne, Barry McGrath, Anya Evans, Brian Bertscher, Johaar Mosaval, Meryl Chappel, Rashna Homji, Vicki Karras, Hazel Merry, Lois Strike, Marilyn Trounson, Ashley Killar, Stephen Jeffries, Paul Porter, Graham Fletcher, David Morse, Nigel Spencer
Pas de Quatre: Andrea Durant, Angela Jackman, Marion Tait, Marie Cabourn
Variation: Barry McGrath
Adage des Amoureux: Vyvyan Lorrayne, Barry McGrath
Pas de Trois: Anya Evans, Brian Bertscher, Johaar Mosaval
Variations: Vyvyan Lorrayne
Pas de Six: Ashley Killar, Stephen Jeffries, Paul Porter, Graham Fletcher, David Morse, Nigel Spencer
Sortie des Promeneurs: Artists of the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet

The Maids

Claire: Nicholas Johnson
Solange: Kerrison Cooke
Madame: Patricia Ruanne
Monsieur: Graham Bart

Solo Percussion: John Riley

Concerto Pas de Deux

Dancers: Anya Evans, Paul Clarke

Solo Piano: Maureen Tomlin

The Grand Tour

American Lady: Vyvyan Lorrayne
Stewards: Stephen Jeffries, David Gordon, Nigel Spencer
Stowaways: Angela Jackson, Brian Bertscher
Gertrude Lawrence: Margaret Barbieri
Noel Coward: Kerrison Cooke
G. B. Shaw: Hendrik Davel
Mary Pickford: Brenda Last
Douglas Fairbanks: Paul Clarke
Gertrude Stein: Nicholas Johnson
Alice B. Toklas: Jeanetta Laurence
Theda Bara: Sheila Humphreys

Crew

For the Mixed Bill

Scenery and Costumes, Les Rendezvous: William Chappell
Arranger and Orchestrator, Les Rendezvous: Constant Lambert
Design, The Maids: William Pitkin
Scenery and Costumes, Concerto Pas de Deux: Jurgen Rose
Scenery and Costumes, The Grand Tour: John Conklin
Orchestrator and Adapter, The Grand Tour: Hershy Kay
Scenery Painters, The Grand Tour: John Campbell Designs Ltd.

For the Royal Ballet Touring Company

Company Manager: John Auld
Assistant Ballet Master: David Gordon
Solo Pianist: Maureen Tomlin
Accompanist: Robin Barker
Stage Manager: A. David Mogridge
Assistant Stage Manager: Lambert Cox
Chief Carpenter: John Hart
Chief Electrician: John Hall
Property Master: James Proud
Wardrobe Supervisor: Pat Pickett
Secretary: Claire Thornton
Advance Publicity Manager: D. Brian Pollitt

For the Theatre Royal, Norwich

House Manager: Stanley C. Fuller
Stage Manager: John Bowhill
Chief Electrician: Billy Vann
Lighting Control: Francis Reid

Programme Printed By: T.W. Pegg & Sons Ltd.